Thousands in Tibet Mourn Passing of Senior Religious Teacher Trained in Exile
nd laypeople gathered in western China’s Sichuan province this week to mourn the death of a senior religious leader who trained as a young man in exile in India and then returned to Tibet to teach, Tibetan sources said. Geshe Jampel Lobshe, 53, passed away on Oct. 19 of an unspecified illness after being suddenly discharged from a hospital in Sichuan’s capital Chengdu which had sent him home to die, sources said. His body has now been taken to Sershul monastery in Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) province, where it will remain for five days while members of the clergy and the public pay respects and offer prayers, the monastery’s memorial service committee said on Friday. Afterward, he will be taken to his family home in Denkhok for a one-day ceremony and then brought to Kaphu Samdrub Ling monastery for further observances before his remains are cremated on Nov. 4, the service committee said. Relapse came quickly Speaking to RFA’s Tibetan Service, a relative living in Switzerland said that