Lobsang Sangay
| Lobsang Sangay བློ་བཟང་སེང་གེ་ |
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| Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration | |
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Assumed office 8 August 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Lobsang Tenzin |
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5 September 1968 Darjeeling, India |
| Political party | National Democratic Party |
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University of Delhi Harvard University |
| Religion | Vajrayana Buddhism |
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| Tibetan | བློ་བཟང་སེང་གེ | ||||||
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| Chinese | 洛桑森格 | ||||||
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| Wylie | blo-bzang seng-ge |
| Lhasa IPA | Tibetan pronunciation: [lópsaŋ séŋke] |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Luòsāng Sēngé |
Lobsang Sangay (Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་སེང་གེ་, "kind-hearted lion"; born September 5, 1968 in Darjeeling) is a Tibetan legal scholar and politician. He has been chief executive of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile since 8 August 2011. Following the election, at the request of the 14th Dalai Lama, the Tibetan parliament-in-exile amended the organisation's bylaws to remove the Dalai Lama's role as ceremonial head of state, making Lobsang Sangay its highest leader. In 2012, to reflect this change, Lobsang Sangay's title as chief executive was changed from kalön tripa ("prime minister") to sikyong ("ruler" or "regent").
Sangay was born in a refugee community in Darjeeling in 1968, with a typical Shichak (settlement) background amidst fields, cows and chickens, fetching wood in the forest and helping his parents' small business, including selling winter sweaters. He is currently the prime minister of Tibet.
After graduating from the Tibetan school in Darjeeling, Sangay received his B.A. (Hons) and LL.B. degrees from the University of Delhi in India. In 1995, he won a Fulbright Scholarship to Harvard Law School, where he subsequently received his LL.M. degree the same year.
In 2003, Sangay organized five conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, including a meeting between the Dalai Lama and thirty-five Chinese scholars at Harvard University.
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