2011 NDPT MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT NOMINEES-DOTOE Province

Dotoe Province Nominees

Biograph 

Ngawang Woeber was born in 1965 in Tibet.  Attended a primary school and then worked in a farm till at the age of 17. Later he joined Drepung Monastery and studied Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan history and Tibetan grammar.

On Sept 27, 1987, around 21 monks waved Tibetan national flags, and then distributed pamphlets quoted with free Tibet and China should leave Tibet. Obviously due to that peaceful rally, he was arrested and imprisoned at Gutsa prison for around 4 months.

He was interrogated and coerced by the Chinese (using all kinds of method) to tell them who incited and spearheaded the protest rally. After his release, he devoted his energy and time to the religious and political affairs of his country.

Under the Chinese suspicious in his political activities, on April 20, 1990, he was expelled from his monastery and he was not permitted to join any other monasteries, since his freedom of movement within Tibet got curtailed, he fled on April 26 1991 to exile.

Reaching Dharamsala, he took Teachers Training Course at the Buddhist School of Dialectics. Later, he was appointed to religious teacher at the Tibetan School at Patlikul near Kullu. Currently he is the President of Gu-Chu-Sum Movement.

Choekyong Wangchuk was born in Kalimpong in 1971, and currently lives in New Delhi. He completed his class 12th from SFF School, Herbertpur and earned a B.A. degree from Punjab University, in 1993, and a PG Diploma in Marketing and Sales Management from Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan in 1994. In 1991 and 1992 he was elected as the President of Overseas Student’s Association of Govt. College for Men and the President of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Chandigarh. From 1995 to 2001, he was elected to the Central Executive Committee of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC). He served as the Deputy Coordinator and, later, as the Coordinator of the New Delhi-based India Tibet Coordination Office (ITCO) of CTA from 2002 to 2006. He organized many Tibet awareness programs and also attended many national and international conferences. Presently, he is working as the Executive Director of the Tibetan Parliamentary & Policy Research Centre based in New Delhi. And he was elected to the 14th ATPD.

Youdon Aukatsang is the Executive Director of Empowering the Vision Project (ENVISION), an NGO working to support, motivate and empower young Tibetans to take their place in the community with dynamism, specialized skills, good careers and entrepreneurship. She was earlier an Independent Consultant for Kreddha International, an organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands. From 2000 to 2003, she was Senior Program Officer of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Dharamsala. She continues to serve on the TCHRD’s Board. She had earlier been elected as an Executive Member of the Tibetan Women’s Association and had also served as its Research Associate from 1994 to 1996. She completed her Master’s degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University, MA (USA) under a Fulbright scholarship. She also has an MA in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University,

New Delhi, India, and had completed her BA from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.

Sermey Loga was born in 1975 at Lithang, Tibet. In early in his tender age he showed his fondness and keen towards religions so after finishing his elementary school. In 1988 he was admitted to Techen Jangchuk Chokling monastery to study philosophy. In 1992, he arrived in exile and now it's been over 18 years that he had been in India at Sera monastery and over there he studied in all kinds of Buddhism philosophy as well as he shows great interest in the social activities.

After the wrong judgmental accusation made by the Chinese on Trulku Tenzin Delek's cases caused him to pay more attention to politics. He actively advocated in Radio Free Asia and Voice of Tibet as well as many other news media also had questions and answers. He had written numerous articles based on political issues and published in The Tibet Express, Tibetan Freedom, and Tibet Times and so on.  Other than that he has been teaching Tibetan grammar at Sera for around 3 years.

In 2008 he took in charge of the Tibet movement in exile from representing Seramey monastery and Bylakuppee settlement. He also actively participated in many workshops organized by the NGOs. Currently he is in Bylakuppee settlement and he is a co-coordinator of NDPT.

Serta Tsultrim Toktsa-Tsang was born in 1974 at Serta, Eastern Tibet, and currently lives in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He did high-level education at Serta Centre for Higher Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Kham region of Tibet. He reached India in 1998 and began working at the Religious Department of the CTA in 1999. From 2000 to early 2003, he was an editor and researcher in Tibetan culture and education at the Cultural & Literary Research Centre of the Norbulingka Institute, Dharamsala. He has been the executive director of Khawa Karpo Tibet Culture Centre since its inception in April 2003 and is the chief editor of the weekly Tibetan newspaper ‘The Tibet Express’ (bod-kyi-bang-chen). He was earlier elected to the 5th local Tibetan Assembly of Dharamsala in 2004. He is also the coordinator of the Association of Tibetan Journalists (ATJ).

Kalsang Gyaltsen was born in Bathang, Tibet, in 1966 and studies both Tibetan and Chinese languages. He worked in the Political Consultative Committee in the Karze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the United Front Work Department branch in the prefecture, and others for more than twelve years, accumulating unique experiences in those offices. He also undertook written and spoken translations in all the meetings held by the Political Consultative Committee and the Buddhist Affairs United Committee. He escaped into exile in June 1999 and on 1 September 1999 joined the Tibetan Research and Analysis Centre of the Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala. There he undertook research on Dotoe province, China and Taiwan. He has written or translated from Chinese to Tibetan – and, also, from Tibetan to Chinese – a number of significant articles and books related to the Tibet issue, Tibetan history, and other related subjects. He is a co-founder of the Khawa Karpo Tibetan Cultural Centre and is actively engaged in bringing out the Bod-kyi Bang-chen newspaper and other publications.