Gyatsho Tshering

Gyatsho Tshering (1936 in Kingdom of Sikkim – 25 June 2009 in Minneapolis, United States), also spelled Gyatso Tsering, was Tibetan scholar of Indian nationality. He was the former director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.

Biography Tshering was born in Sikkim of Lobsang Lama and Nyima Dolma and completed his studies at the University of Calcutta. He states that between 1955 and 1959, some of the work at the consulate was to gather information on the activities of the Chinese army, and was therefore aware of the tension in March 1959. On the evening of 17 March, the atmosphere was particularly tense, and he spent the night with his colleagues at the consulate where he could not sleep. At 2 am, the shelling began, he knew that the 14th Dalai Lama left the Norbulingka, but kept it secret. He decided to go out to see what happens, and found the streets full of Chinese soldiers, shouting and firing at close range. There were masses of corpses. The artillery fired at Potala, the bombing lasted 2 hours, after which the monks got out from the Potala, providing easy targets for Chinese military guns. He also saw two women and a man walking on the road, white scarves at hands as a sign of peace. They were mown down by 4 or 5 shots. In a monastery near the Potala, he saw Chinese soldiers looking for weapons, threatening thirty Tibetans who raised their hands, who were finally shot

He joined the Central Tibetan Administration in 1963 and worked in various departments until his retirement in the late 1990s.

In 1999, he joined his wife, Namgyal Dolma, to the United States and they settled in Minneapolis.

Some of his publications Books The Tibetan Cathedral, Thekchen Chholing, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh: A Souvenir, Ed. Tibetan Cultural Printing Press, 1970 The Guru Puja and The Hundred Deities of the Land of Joy, Dharamsala, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1995

Preface Vivre la méditation au quotidien, Dalaï-Lama; trad. de l'anglais par Pema Dorje et Marie-Pierre d'Haillecourt; assistés pour la version définitive par M.-T. Guettab; Paris : Éd. Dewatshang, 1995

Translations Yeshi Donden, 'Tibetan Medicine: A Brief History, translated by Gyatsho Tshering', The Tibet Society Bulletin, 5 (1972): pp. 7–24.