Dawa norbu biography of mahatma

By Lobsang Tenchoe

DHARAMSALA, April 10: Tibet Forum-Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) hosted the 4th Prof Dawa Norbu Memorial Lecture on April 9 in New Delhi to commemorate the works of the late Prof Dawa Norbu and to reinvigorate Tibet as an important academic field of study.

Prof Tsering Shakya from the University of British Columbia gave the Memorial Lecture, who is also a friend of the late Prof Dawa Norbu gave the Memorial Lecture at the day-long ‘Symposium in Memory of Professor Dawa Norbu’ held at the school of social science auditorium in JNU.

“Dawa Norbu had always believed that he can only speak for himself and not for Tibetans, but however he became a crucial voice for Tibetans,” Prof Tsering Shakya said in his address and further described Prof Norbu as one of the very few Tibetans who has successfully articulated his own ideas and reality of Tibet that in a way challenged the either romanticized or mystified portrayal of Tibet and Tibetans by non-Tibetans especial