Lodi gyari biography of donald

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  • Lodi Gyari, who has died aged 69, was a special envoy to the Dalai Lama and spent years negotiating with Chinese officials over the status.

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    DHARAMSALA, Oct 30: Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, the former special envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama has passed away.

    Gyari Rinpoche, as he was affectionately called, has passed away at the age of 69 in the early hours on Monday at a hospital in San Francisco, US.

    Gyari Rinpoche was admitted in the hospital earlier this week where he was being treated for liver cancer. He is survived by his wife, Dawa Chokyi, six children and grandchildren.

    Mr Gyari had served in the senior-most positions in the Tibetan administration in exile. At the age of 30, he was elected as the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile and was one of the youngest people to be appointed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Kashag (the Tibetan Cabinet).

    After being appointed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to lead negotiations with the Chinese government, Mr Gyari conducted nine rounds of high-level talks with the Chinese counterparts between 2002- 2010 and was instrumental in maintaining a broad internationa

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    Statement by Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kasur Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari


    Statement by Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kasur Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari

    Special
    Envoy Lodi Gyari making a point during his meeting on July 1st with Du
    Qinglin, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative
    Conference and Minister of the huvud United Front Work Department. To
    his right is Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen while to the left of Du Qinglin is
    Executive Vice Minister Zhu Weiqun of the Central United Front Work
    Department. Photos/Central Tibetan Administration

    Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen and I accompanied by senior aides Sonam
    N. Dagpo, Bhuchung K. Tsering, both members of the Task Force on
    Sino-Tibetan Negotiations, and Jigmey Passang from the Secretariat of
    the Tibetan Task Force, visited Beijing from June 30 to July 3, 2008.

    We met with Du Qinglin, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s
    Political Consultative Conference and Mini

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    Lodi Gyari: Standing With The Dalai Lama

    Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 9:18 a.m.

    Washington, DC: With the
    Olympics in Beijing less than a month away, the global spotlight is on
    China. The host nation’s human rights record fryst vatten under renewed scrutiny,
    particularly its response to recent unrest in Tibet.

    “There
    should be a certain degree of normalcy (in Tibet),” Lodi Gyari, the
    head of the Tibetan delegation for talks with China, said at an April
    news conference in New Delhi. AFP/Getty Images

    Lodi Gyari is the special envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader.

    As His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s chief negotiator, Gyari has twice
    traveled to meet Communist Party officials in Beijing since this
    spring’s widespread protests in support of Tibet’s push for self-rule.
    Those protests, which centered on the Olympic torch’s trip to Beijing,
    also set off counter-demonstrations in China and elsewhere

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