Jamyang norbu biography

Jamyang Norbu (Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: 'jam-dbyangs nor-bu) is a.
The Twelfth Chone Sakyong, Jamyang Norbu ('jam dbyangs nor bu), was born in 1703, water-sheep year of twelfth sexagenary cycle, into the royal family of Chone.
Jamyang Norbu is director of the Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, Dharmasala.

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Jamyang Norbu

Jamyang Norbu

Born	1949 Tibet
Known for	Activist for Tibetan independence
Spouse	Tenzing Chounzom
Children	2

Jamyang Norbu (Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: ‘jam-dbyangs nor-bu) is a Tibetan political activist and writer, currently living in the United States, having previously lived for over 40 years as a Tibetan exile in India.

Biography

Norbu attended St. Joseph's School in Darjeeling, India.^[1] As a teenager, he dropped out of school^[2] and ran away from home to join the Tibetan guerrilla group Chushi Gangdruk, which operated from Mustang in Nepal.^[3]

He is the creator of the ubiquitous Rangtsen Lakdheb or ‘Independence Handbook’ (Tibetan: རང་བཙན་ལག་དེབ་, Wylie: rang-btsan-lag-deb) carried by most Tibetans in-exile. Also commonly referred to as the Green Book, it has been a long-standing and critical source of funding since its 1972 inception for the Tibetan government in-exile to pay for staffing, maintenance, setting up scholarships for Tibetans, and a myriad of other ser

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Jamyang Norbu: Memory Keeper

IT WAS AT A SMALL gym in Dharamshala sometime in the early 1990s, when Jamyang Norbu first caught sight of an unusual visitor. The town was then far from the tourist trap it is today, and Norbu, who had been part of a Tibetan guerrilla force in his youth, was beginning to make a name for himself as a writer and thinker in the exiled Tibetan society.

This unusual visitor was an elderly man. He moved slowly, and he carried a rosary in one hand, perhaps having just completed the kora (the circumambulation of a holy site) around the Dalai Lama’s temple. When the young men teased him that day, he responded with a joke of his own. “Okay boys, back to your training. We have to represent Tibet in the Olympic Games,” he said, as he went about his own exercise routine.

It was only later that Norbu learned that this old man was Bhusang, and that he had been a witness—and a participant—in some of the most tumultuous events in modern Tibetan history. He had been part of a large group of Tibetans who had fought the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) durin

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Defending The Roof Of The World

Tibetan writer and activist Jamyang Norbu has a reputation as a troublemaker. He has been one of only a few voices in the Tibetan-exile community to publicly criticize the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the deeply revered spiritual and political leader of Tibet, who fled into exile in 1959. Norbu faults the Dalai Lama for his willingness to give up Tibetan sovereignty to the Chinese government, which has controlled Tibet since 1950. Norbu is also critical of Western stereotypes of Tibet as a land of otherworldly purity and wisdom, arguing that this reduces his homeland to a place that exists for the spiritual needs of Western consumers. And he condemns Westerners who tout Tibetan culture and religion as ideal while ignoring the suffering of actual Tibetan people.

Norbu’s vision for Tibet’s future is not a Buddhist fantasy-land but a modern democracy. To advance this vision, he champions secular Tibetan culture and promotes the country’s independence. He has served as director of the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in Dharamsala,