Thubten Jigme Norbu
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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),[3] recognised as the Taktser Rinpoche,[4] 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.
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Born | (1922-08-16)August 16, 1922 Taktser, Tibet |
Died | September 5, 2008(2008-09-05) (aged 86) Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
Nationality | American[1] |
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