Tsering shakya biography of abraham
Tsering Shakya
Tibetan scholar
Tsering Wangdu Shakya (Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་དབང་འདུས་ཤཱཀྱ་, Wylie: Tshe-ring Dbang-'dus Shaakya) (born ) is a historian and scholar on Tibetan literature and modern Tibet and its relationship with China. He is currently Canadian Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia at the Institute of Asian Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia where he teaches in the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program, and also works for Radio Free Asia.[1]
Early life
Shakya was born in Lhasa, Tibet in , the youngest child in his family.
His father, headmaster of a small Tibetan school, died when he was little.
Tsering shakya biography of abraham They ask why protests in Tibet have got so much attention in the international media when similar protests happen every day in China, without being highlighted. They settled in northern India, where Shakya attended a Tibetan school in Mussoorie. At the time, many said that things had never been so good. In researching the book Shakya interviewed many leading Tibetan politicians and drawn on numerous unpublished sources.His family was divided after the Cultural Revolution erupted in A brother and a sister were staunch leftists, but another brother was imprisoned for opposing the revolution. In , his mother left Tibet for Nepal with Shakya and another daughter. They settled in northern India, where Shakya attended a Tibetan school in Mussoorie.[2]
Education and career
- B.A.
Hons, () Social Anthropology & South Asian History, SOAS, University of London[3]
- () Tibetan Studies. SOAS, University of London. Thesis: Dondrup Gyal and the Search for Tibetan Modernism: A Study of Dondrup Gyal’s Literary Works[3]
- Ph.D.Tsering shakya biography of abraham lincoln There are about 5, Tibetans in Beijing, and according to my own relatives there, there have been no attacks at all. It is partly a security question, but also, neither India nor China are quite sure what will happen if that region is opened to border trade—whether the Indian market will penetrate more forcefully into Tibet or vice versa. In general, now that fewer Tibetans are studying the language at a high level, the standard has declined. The Beijing Olympics were definitely an important element in the protests.
() Tibetan Studies. School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Thesis: The Emergence of Modern Tibetan Literature Since [3]
He convened the first International Conference on Modern Tibet Studies in at School of Oriental and African Studies. He taught at the Centre of Refugee Studies at the University of Oxford.
From to he was a research fellow in Tibetan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.[1]
Selected publications
- Shakya, Tsering W.; Harris, Clare (), Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital , London: Serindia
- Gyatso, Palden; Shakya, Tsering W.
(), Fire Under the Snow: The Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner (Palden Gyatso), London: Harvill Press