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Thubten Jigme Norbu

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Thubten Jigme Norbu (August 16, 1922 – September 5, 2008), recognised as the Taktser Rinpoche, was a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and is the eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. [1]

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Anwar Yusuf Turani

Anwar Yusuf Turani (ئەنۋەر يۈسۈپ تۇرانى, Анвар Йусуф Турани) is an ethnic Uyghur nationalist.

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Bhutan at the 2014 Asian Games

Bhutan will participate in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea from 19 September to 4 October 2014.

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Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Buddhism in the United States

Buddhism, once thought of as a mysterious religion from the East, has now become very popular in the West, and is one of the largest religions in the United States.

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Colin Turnbull

Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.

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Dadon

Dadon (Zla sgron), name Dadon Dawa Dolma (born in Tibet in 1968) is a Tibetan singer and actress.

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Deaths in September 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.

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Drogön Chögyal Phagpa

Drogön Chogyal Phagpa (1235 – 15 December 1280), was the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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George E. Hibbard

George E. Hibbard (1924–1991) was a Saint Louis-born American art collector, and expert on Tibetan art and culture.

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Gyatsho Tshering

Gyatsho Tshering, (1936 in Sikkim – 25 June 2009 in Minneapolis) also wrote Gyatso Tsering, is the former director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and a Tibetan scholar of Indian nationality Bhuchung K. Tsering,, Phayul.com, 29 June 2009 of Indian nationality.

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Heinrich Harrer

Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.

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History of Tibet

Tibetan history, as it has been recorded, is particularly focused on the history of Buddhism in Tibet.

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Human rights in Tibet

Human rights in Tibet is a contentious issue.

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India at the 2016 South Asian Games

India participated in the 2016 South Asian Games in Guwahati and Shillong, India from 5 February to 16 February 2016.

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International Tibet Independence Movement

The International Tibet Independence Movement (ITIM) is a non-profit organization, founded on 18 March 1995, that supports Tibetan independence from the People's Republic of China: ITIM was founded and is based in the city of Fishers, Indiana, in the United States.

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Kiang

The kiang (Equus kiang) is the largest of the wild asses.

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Kumbum Monastery

Kumbum Monastery (THL Kumbum Jampa Ling), also called Ta'er Temple, is a Tibetan gompa in Huangzhong County, Xining, Qinghai, China.

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Kundun

Kundun is a 1997 epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese.

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List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people

This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana.

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List of Tibetan writers

This is a chronological list of important Tibetan writers.

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Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen, 4th Panchen Lama

Losang Chö kyi Gyaltsen (1570–1662) was the fourth Panchen Lama of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and the first to be accorded this title during his lifetime.

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Nagqu Town

Nagqu Town, Nagchu in original Tibetan or Naqu, also known as Nagchuka or Nagquka, is a town in northern Tibet, seat of Nagqu, approximately by road north-east of the capital Lhasa, within the People's Republic of China.

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Norbu

Norbu is a family name of Tibetan origin, meaning "jewel".

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Panchen Lama

The Panchen Lama is a tulku of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Protests and uprisings in Tibet since 1950

Protests and uprisings in Tibet against the government of the People's Republic of China have occurred since 1950, and include the 1959 uprising, the 2008 uprising, and the subsequent self-immolation protests.

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Sakya Pandita

Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་པནདིཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན)1182-28 November 1251) was a Tibetan spiritual leader and Buddhist scholar and the fourth of the Five Sakya Forefathers. Künga Gyeltsen is generally known simply as Sakya Pandita, a title given to him in recognition of his scholarly achievements and knowledge of Sanskrit. He is held in the tradition to have been an emanation of Manjusri, the embodiment of the wisdom of all the Buddhas. After that he also known as a great scholar in Tibet, Mongolia, China and India and was proficient in the five great sciences of Buddhist philosophy, medicine, grammar, dialectics and sacred Sanskrit literature as well as the minor sciences of rhetoric, synonymies, poetry, dancing and astrology. He is considered to be the fourth Sakya Forefather and sixth Sakya Trizin and one of the most important figures in the Sakya lineage.

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Savoy Hotel (Mussoorie)

The Savoy, is a historic luxury hotel located in the hill station, Mussoorie, in Uttarakhand state of India, owned by Hotel Controls Pvt Ltd ITC Welcomgroup Hotels.

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Taktser

Taktser or Tengtser (Place on the Heights) is a village in the Western Chinese province of Qinghai where Tibetan, Han and Hui Chinese live.

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Taktser Rinpoche

Taktser Rinpoche was born in 1922 in "the small village of Taktser, meaning 'roaring tiger,' located in the Amdo region of eastern Tibet." He became a lama of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism and was named Thubten Jigme Norbu, the oldest brother of Tenzin Gyatso- the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

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Thubten

Thubten may refer to.

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Tibetan Americans

Tibetan Americans are Americans of Tibetan ancestry.

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Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa

Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa (January 11, 1907 – February 23, 1989) was a Tibetan nobleman, scholar and former Finance Minister of the government of Tibet.

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Wild yak

The wild yak (Bos mutus) is a large wild bovid native to the Himalayas.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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5th Dalai Lama

Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617 to 1682) was the Fifth Dalai Lama, and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thubten_Jigme_Norbu

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