Thubten Jigme Norbu
Thubten Jigme Norbu | |
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Norbu with his brother, the 14th Dalai Lama, in 1996 | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | August 16, 1922 |
| Died | September 5, 2008 (aged 86) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
Thubten Jigme Norbu (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇིགས་མེད་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: Thub-stan 'Jigs-med Nor-bu) (August 16, 1922 – September 5, 2008), recognised as the 16th Taktser Rinpoche, but he was married to a woman in 1960. He was a Tibetan lama, writer, civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and was the eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. He was one of the first high-profile Tibetans to go into exile and was the first to settle in the United States.