Tibetans Bid Final farewell to Lhasang Tsering, a Voice of Conviction in Tibet’s Freedom Struggle – Tibet

Obituary: Lhasang Tsering (1952–2026)

By Jamyang Norbu Lhasang Tsering was born in Tradun, in Western Tibet, in the Water Dragon year (1952). His father was a Nyingma ngakpa, or tantric master, from the Taklung Kagyu monastery in Riwoche near Chamdo. On his way to Mount Kailash, the ngakpa stopped at Gyangtse, where he took a young maid, Jhanjup, from the Tara aristocrat family as his spiritual consort. One account mentions that he may have successfully treated a member of the Tara …

Tibetans Bid Final farewell to Lhasang Tsering, a Voice of Conviction in Tibet’s Freedom Struggle – Tibet

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 15 June: As friends, admirers, and fellow Tibetans gathered to bid him a final farewell, veteran Tibetan independence activist, writer, and poet Lhasang Tsering was cremated on Monday at the crematorium located half kilometre to Mcleod Ganj. He passed away on June 11 at the age of 74, leaving behind a life story etched into the history of the Tibetan freedom movement through sacrifice, conviction, intellectual hones…