Lobsang Tenzin

The 5th Rinpoche Lobsang Tenzin Samdong ( Tib. rin po che zam gdong blo bzang bstan 'dzin; born November 5, 1939 in Dechen (formerly Jol or Atunzu ), eastern Tibet and Yunnan ) was from 2001 to 2011, the Prime Minister ( Kalon Thripa ) of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, India.

Biography

With five years Lobsang Tenzin was recognized as the reincarnation of the 4th Samdong Rinpoche. After his training in Lhasa he fled in 1959 after the Chinese siege of Tibet into exile. From 1961 he was a religious teacher in the Tibetan school in Shimla, in 1963, he headed the school. In 1964, he worked as a religious teacher of Tibetan School Darjeeling and managed between 1965 and 1970 a Tibetan school in Dalhousie.

Furthermore, there was Lobsang Tenzin director of the company founded in 1967 and in 1988 recognized as a University Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Varanasi by the year 2000.

In 1990 he was a member of the Committee Draft of the Constitution of the future Tibetan polity and justice for Tibetans in exile. In 1991 he was appointed by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatsho a member of the Tibetan exile parliament and later unanimously elected as its Chairman. He remained until 1995, Member of Parliament. Between 1996 and 2001, Lobsang Tenzin was also an elected member and Chairman of the Parliament, which represented the province of Kham.

Lobsang Tenzin was elected to a worldwide choice of the voting Tibetan voters on 5 September 2001 as Prime Minister of the existing government in exile since 1960.

He pleads in conflict with China for nonviolence.