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Thubten Samphel was born on 2 November, 1956 in Lhasa, Tibet Area, China, is a writer. Discover Thubten Samphel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Occupation Writer Government official
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 2 November 1956
Birthday 2 November
Birthplace Lhasa, Tibet Area, China
Date of death June 04, 2022
Died Place Bylakuppe, India
Nationality China

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2014

Tsering Dolma, older sister of the 14th Dalai Lama, sent Samphel to school at the Tibetan Children's Villages before he joined Dr. Graham's Homes, a missionary school in Kalimpong. After his secondary studies, he attended St. Stephen's College, Delhi and Delhi University, where he earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in history. While studying for his master's, he was employed in the office of Tenzin Geyche Tethong [fr], a secretary in the private office of the Dalai Lama.

1980

In 1980, Samphel became an official within the Tibetan government-in-exile. He was among the first group of Tibetan Fulbright Scholars to study in the United States, where he earned a degree in journalism from Columbia University. In 1985, he was sent to Amdo by the Dalai Lama as part of the Fact-finding missions to Tibet [fr]. From 1999 to 2012, he was secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a spokesperson of the Central Tibetan Administration. In 2012, he became director of the Tibet Policy Institute. In November 2018, he retired from the Central Tibetan Administration.

1959

Three years after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, Samphel left Tibet with his older brother. They arrived in Tingri before crossing the Chinese-Nepalese border into the Solukhumbu District.

1956

Thubten Samphel (Standard Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་བསམ་འཕེལ; 2 November 1956 – 4 June 2022) was a Tibetan writer, journalist, and government official. He worked as a secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was a spokesperson of the Central Tibetan Administration, based in Dharamshala. He also worked for the administration's think tank, Tibet Policy Institute.

Born in Lhasa in 1956, Samphel was the son of parents who worked as servants to the mother of the 14th Dalai Lama, Diki Tsering.