Lobsang Sandan
High ranking Tibetan lama
About Lobsang Sandan
Lived 1933 – 1985 (aged 51–52).
Lobsang Samten Taklha (, 1933 – 28 September 1985) was a Tibetan politician and one of three elder brothers of the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1978 he helped found and eventually became the director of the Tibetan Medical Institute in Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama still lives in exile.
Lobsang Sandan (Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་བསམ་གཏན་, Chinese:达拉·洛桑三旦; 1933–1985), one of the three reincarnated rinpoches in one family, is the third brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. He is 2 years older than the 14th Dalai Lama.
Lobsand Sandan once lied about the 14th Dalai Lama and it was confirmed by Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme and the 14th Dalai Lama.
On 20 April 1956, Lobsang Sandan was appointed as a member of the Preparatory Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region and served as the deputy director of the Public Security Department
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Who was Lobsang Sandan?
high ranking Tibetan lama
When was Lobsang Sandan born?
Lobsang Sandan was born in 1933.
When did Lobsang Sandan die?
Lobsang Sandan died in 1985.
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