Former minister and representative Tashi Wangdi passes away at 78

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Tsering Dhundup

DHARAMSHALA, May 1: Tashi Wangdi, a Tibetan diplomat and former minister of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), passed away at the age of 78 in Canada.

Wangdi was born on April 15, 1947 in Tibet. He fled the country in 1959 and later joined the Tibetan government-in-exile in 1966 as a junior officer. Over the next four decades, he served in various leadership roles, including as minister (Kalon) of six departments, Religion and Culture, Home, Education, Information and International Relations, Security, and Health.

Wangdi also held diplomatic posts as the representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, the Americas, and Brussels. He also ran for Prime Minister of the exile Tibetan government, the highest office of the Tibetan exile polity in the 2011 elections.

Educated in India and the ...

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