Talk:Lobsang Sangay

Tibetan name
Note that, contrary to an earlier edit of mine, Lobsang Sangay's Tibetan name per and  is བློ་བཟང་སེང་གེ (blo-bzang seng-ge), which can also be written: བློ་བཟང་སེངྒེ་(blo-bzang sengge). The - symbol represents a Tibetan punctuation mark which separate syllables in Tibetan words but separates entire words in Sanskrit loanwords. sengge is originally a Sanskrit loan, but apparently it is seen as naturalised enough that it can be written with the syllables separate like a Tibetan word. As far as I'm aware, the difference is purely orthographic. In either case, the more standard romanisation of Lobsang Sangay's name would be Lobzang Sengge.&mdash;Greg Pandatshang (talk) 04:46, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

RFA controversy
There was a controversy recently about the dismissal of the Tibet Service Director of Radio Free Asia, Apei Jinmei (阿沛·晋美). Congressman Dana Rohrabacher seems to be insinuating that Apei's dismissal, as well as that of Jiayang Nuobu, had to do with Sangay's meddling. According to Rohrabacher, Lobsang Sangay did not like RFA's refusal to adhere to the CTA party line, by its publication of more extreme Sinophobic and secessionist views. Rohrabacher addressed Sangay: "[Y]ou and other Tibetan leaders such as Lobsang Nyandak, Lodi Gyari, and Samdong Rinpoche... must immediately cease making disparaging remarks... aimed at the Tibetan Service of Radio Free Asia... US foreign assistance funding to those struggling against Communist China should be allocated for Chinese pro-democracy advocates, the Falun Gong and the Uyghurs... They, unlike some Tibetan leaders, have been standing firm and are unwilling to cut a deal with a corrupt and despotic regime. The 75 Tibetans who have self-immolated did not do so for the right to become a minority group within Communist China; the policy you are advocating. They are killing themselves for... the end of the illegal Chinese occupation.... I will also be closely scrutinizing the recipients of American aid within and outside Tibet to ensure that it... is spent in a manner that supports American interests." No mainstream news outlets have picked up on it yet, so this information mainly comes from the Congressman's press releases. Nonetheless, it ties back to the issue of the autocratic tendencies of the CTA, at least some criticism of which (by Nuobu, Dorje Shugden followers, etc) should find its way into this article, as they do in the biographies of leaders like Bashar al-Assad. Shrigley (talk) 23:56, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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Passport
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Lobsang Sangay holds passport of the United States. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eikrpluedr (talk • contribs) 16:16, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It's hardly surprising since he holds American citizenship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elnon (talk • contribs) 23:30, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * There is an information missing, that I think explain why he holds this passeport: Sangay was a refugee then. ( " In April 2011, Lobsang Sangay, a midforties Harvard-trained legal scholar and political activist, who was a refugee born in 1968 in Darjeeling in West Bengal, was elected as the chief minister (Kalon Tripa).")--Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 15:45, 7 November 2018 (UTC)