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May 5, 2012 · Sadly, Yauch’s efforts were derailed by illness in 2009, when he was diagnosed with cancer after a tumor was found on his salivary gland. Despite surgery and radiation treatments, he passed away on Friday. For Dechen Wangdu, the battles goes on as the situation in Tibet is far from resolved.
May 4, 2012 · Reuters. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch passed away on Friday, leaving his widow Dechen Wangdu to carry on crusade they once pursued together. Dechen Wangdu is an American-born activist of...
In 1995, while attending a speech by the Dalai Lama at Harvard University, he met his wife, Tibetan American Dechen Wangdu. They married in 1998 and had a daughter the same year.
- Adam Nathaniel Yauch
- August 5, 1964, New York City, U.S.
- May 4, 2012 (aged 47), New York City, U.S.
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Jun 7, 2012 · Yauch was getting deep enough into Buddhism that he was pondering a life of celibacy, but then he met a Tibetan-American Harvard student named Dechen Wangdu – and got married instead.
- Brian Hiatt
May 5, 2012 · The following year he met his wife, fellow activist Dechen Wangdu, at a talk given by the Dalai Lama at Harvard University. They married in 1998, in a traditional Tibetan ceremony, but with...
- Alex Rayner
May 5, 2012 · May 4, 2012. Adam Yauch, a rapper and founder of the pioneering and multimillion-selling hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 47. His mother, Frances Yauch,...
May 4, 2012 · Yauch was married to Tibetan-American activist, Dechen Wangdu. The rapper grew up in Brooklyn, and was fascinated by electronics and explosives at a young age, building small home-made bombs...
