Word: lobsang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...written with typical warmth about his unworldly boyhood in the cold, dark, thousand-room Potala Palace, playing games with the palace sweepers, rigging up a hand-cranked projector on which he could watch Tarzan movies and Henry V, and clobbering his only real playmate--his immediate elder brother Lobsang Samten--serene in the knowledge that no one would readily punish a boy regarded as the incarnation of the god of compassion. Yet the dominant characteristic of his childhood was its loneliness. Often, he recalls, he would go onto the rooftop of his palace and watch the other boys of Lhasa...
...strongest message was sent by Lobsang Sangay, a Tibetan activist and Ph.D. student at the Harvard Law School who expressed his frustration with the exclusion of Tibet from discussions on China...
...Lobsang described the situation as a "taboo" on Tibet and urged the University to focus more attention on the Tibetan people...
...Lobsang said that the rallies this weekend helped the Tibetan cause...
...biggest complaint expressed by the audience reflected Lobsang's--the ignorance of the rights of the Tibetan people...