Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar

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Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar
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Born (1986-04-13) April 13, 1986 (age 37)

Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar (born on (1986-04-13)April 13, 1986 in Dharamsala) is a Tibetan politician, Member of Parliament and President of the Association of Former Tibetan Political Prisoners Gu-Chu-Sum Tibet Movement.[1][2][3]

Biography[edit]

Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar was born in 1989 in Dharamshala. She attended the School of Tibetan Children's Villages, and then obtained a master's degree in English literature.[4][5]

In 2011, at the age of 25, she was the first Tibetan woman to obtain Indian nationality after the Delhi High Court ruled in her favour.[6][7]

In 2012, it began the march for peace and freedom in Tibet, in solidarity with the Self-immolation of Tibetan sacrifices and the Political prisoners in Tibet.[4]

She taught literature at DBS College (PG) until 2013, when she joined the Association of Tibetan Women in Exile as coordinator of the project "Legal Empowerment of Tibetan Women" for 8 months.[4]

From 2013 to 2016, she was Vice-President of the Gu-Chu-Sum Association. In September 2016, she was elected president of this association.[4]

In March 2016, Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar was elected to the 16th Tibetan Legislative Assembly.

Notes and references[edit]

  1. Tibetan Former Political Prisoner Dies After Years of Ill Health Following Release From Jail, FRG, 12 April 2019
  2. "MP Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar elected new President of Gu-Chu-Sum". 30 September 2016.
  3. "Tibetans in exile inspired by Hong Kong protests". 5 September 2019.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 (in English)Sixteenth TPiE (Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile)
  5. "25-yr-old first Tibetan to be Indian citizen | India News - Times of India".
  6. Marie-Florence Bennes,Tibetans, Henry Dougier, 2016, ISBN 9791031201849
  7. (in English){ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/25-yr-old-first-Tibetan-to-be-Indian-citizen/articleshow/7323090.cms 25-yr-old first Tibetan to be Indian citizen]

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