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Notable Tibetan scholars also made their way to Seattle to collaborate, including Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (rtsis dpon dbang phyug bde ldan zhwa sgab pa, 1908–1989), who visited several times in the 1960s while he was composing his famous history of Tibet, Surkhang Wangchen Gelek (zur khang dbang chen dge legs, 1910–1977), who lived in Seattle from 1964 to 1972, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's elder brother, Thubten Jigme Norbu (thub bstan 'jigs med nor bu, 1922–2008), and the great Tibetan educator Tashi Tsering (bkra shis tshe ring, b ...
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... 1928), Khenchung Lobzang Gyeltsen (mkhan chung blo bzang rgyal mtshan), and Tsipon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (rtsis dpon zhwa sgab pa, 1908-1989) began forming an anti-communist exile-based resistance group that would become known as Chenkhentsisum (gcen mkhan rtsis gsum), the name being derived from the founding members’ epithets ...
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... The Tibetan historian Shakabpa Wangchuk Deden (zhwa sgab pa dbang phyug bde ldan, 1908–1989) has it that she poisoned both Poyongza and her own son.[23] Other histories, however, claim that the king was assassinated by those opposed to his reform program, a claim Shakabpa also repeats.[24] ...
Read more from the biography of Margyel Dongkar
... He also acted as unofficial advisor to Tibetan religious and political missions to China, including the Tibetan Trade Mission of 1948, headed by Tsepon W.D ...
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... The delegation consisted of Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (zhwa sgab pa dbang phyug bde ldan, 1908-1989), the Dalai Lama's older brother Gyalo Thondup (rgya lo don grub, b ...
Read more from the biography of Rinchen Sadutshang
... He also served as English translator to Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (dbang phyug bde ldan zhwa sgab pa, 1908-1989), the former finance minister of Tibet. ...
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On 6 August 1954, Gyalo Thondup, along with two Tibetans officials, Tsipon Shakabpa (rtsis dpon zhwa sgab pa, 1908-1989) and Jamyangkyil Khenchung ('jam dbyangs dkyil mkhan chung), founded the Tibet Welfare Association in Kalimpong (bod kyi bde don tshogs pa) ...
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Leaving her children in Kalimpong and returning to Tibet, Dorje Yudon began a love affair with Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (zhwa sgab pa dbang phyug bde ldan, b.1908), a married man, that lasted several months ...
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