The Treasury of Lives

Rinchen Sadutshang with Taklha Phuntsok Tashi



Source: A Life Unforeseen: A Memoir of Service to Tibet by Rinchen Sadutshang

Rinchen Sadutshang, a fifth rank official at the Tibetan foreign ministry, with his colleague Takla Phuntsok Tashi, a brother in law of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, in front of the Potala in 1952. Sadutshang would later become a Kalon in India in 1978 and would become the Representative at the Bureau of the Dalai Lama in Delhi, his last post before retirement.   


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