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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 ...
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, also called Lama Zopa Rinpoche has an extensive biography of him in the book The Lawudo Lama by Jamyang Wangmo. [2] Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born in Thangme, Nepal, in 1945. [3] [1] Early in life, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama Kunzang Yeshe, from the same region (hence the title "Rinpoche").
The following people died in September 2011. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Sogyal Rinpoche was born Sonam Gyaltsen Lakar in 1947 in what the Tibetans called the Trehor region of Kham, Tibet. [8] According to his mother, the patron of his courtesan aunt and de facto stepfather, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, recognized him as the incarnation of Tertön Sogyal and supervised his education at Dzongsar Monastery. [9]
When Jordan Chiles and her fellow Team USA gymnasts won the gold medal in the women's team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics on July 30, her parents, Gina and Timothy Chiles, were there to cheer on.
House where the 14th Dalai Lama was born. The village of Taktser gained fame as the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama in 1935. [22] It also saw the birth of his elder brother, Thubten Jigme Norbu, who was acknowledged by the 13th Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the great lama Taktser Rinpoche. [23]
Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Florida from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 until his death in 1998.
Dorothy Conaghan Chiles (born September 24, 1930) was a U.S. politician from the state of Oklahoma. Her first husband, Brian Conaghan, died due to complications from leukemia while serving in the Oklahoma House of Representatives .