World Tibet Network News Tuesday, April 28, 1998

Tibetan Youth Congress

April 29, 1998, 3.00 am, Dharamsala

Mr Thupten Nogdup (age 60) passed away at 12.15 (midnight) at Dr Ram Manohar Hospital, New Delhi. At 10.30 am, his body will be taken to Majnukatilla Tibetan Camp, Delhi. Final funeral will take palce in Dharamsala. Day and time of the final funeral will be informed to you later.

Biography of Thubten Ngodup

Thubten Ngodup was formerly a monk at the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse. He was born in Pen-nak in the Tsang province of Tibet. He joined the 22 establishment of the Indian army in the early 1960s and was a veteran of the Bangladesh independence war. He resigned from the army in 1987. He came to

Dharamsala around 1988 and worked as the cowherd for Drip Tsecholing Monastery. He also worked as the cook for the monastery.

Drip Tsechokling monastery, in view of the fact that he did not have any immediate family members to look after him, gave a small plot of land where he built a little hut. Sometimes he also worked as the cook for the monastery.

In April 1996 he joined the Department of Security as its peon. He resigned from his post in December 1996 to participate in the 1997 peace march to Tibet.

He had no family members in India. He was a quiet man, not given to speaking much. He was a hard worker and full of patriotism. He participated in both peace marches. During the unto-death hunger-striker he voluntarily attended to the needs of the six hunger-strikers.