Lobsang Samten Taklha

Lobsang Samten Taklha
1955 picture of Lobsang Samden (far-right) with his family
Born1933
Taktser, Qinghai, China
Died28 September 1985(1985-09-28) (aged 51–52)
Delhi, India
SpouseNamgyal Lhamo Taklha
MotherDiki Tsering

Lobsang Samten Taklha (Tibetan: སྟག་ལྷ་བློ་བཟང་བསམ་གཏན, 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.