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Thubten Jigme Norbu (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇིགས་མེད་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: Thub-stan 'Jigs-med Nor-bu) (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 was the eldest brother of the 14th ...
- September 5, 2008 (aged 86), Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- Tibetan Buddhism
Thubten Jigme Norbu ( Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇིགས་མེད་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: Thub-stan 'Jigs-med Nor-bu) (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 fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
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Sep 11, 2008 · Thubten Jigme Norbu, the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama and a tenacious symbol of the Tibetan struggle for independence, died Friday in Bloomington, Ind., his home in exile for four...
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Sep 9, 2008 · Thubten J. Norbu, the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama and himself regarded as a reincarnated saint, died Friday in Bloomington, Ind. He had split with his pacifist brother to demand complete...
Sep 7, 2008 · Thubten Jigme Norbu, who has died aged 86, was the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama. Recognised at the age of three as the reincarnation of a Tibetan lama, he became the abbot of a great...
By Tricycle. Spring 1998. Thubten Jigme Norbu spoke with Donald S. Lopez, Jr., last summer at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. The elder brother of His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses Dorje Shugden as a hungry ghost. Lopez: What is the role of “protector deities” in Tibetan Buddhism?
Thubten Jigme Norbu, recognised as the Taktser Rinpoche, was a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and was the eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. He was one of the first high-profile Tibetans to go into exile and was the first to settle in the United States.
