Thubten Jigme Norbu

Thubten Jigme Norbu (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇིགས་མེད་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: Thub-stan 'Jigs-med Nor-bu) (August 16, 1922 – September 5, 2008),[3] recognised as the 16th Taktser Rinpoche,[4], but he was married to a woman in 1960.

Thubten Jigme Norbu was born in 1922 in the small, mountain village of Taktser in the Amdo County of Eastern Tibet.

In 1996 he led a 300-mile, 45-day walk from the PRC embassy in Washington, DC to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.

Norbu died at the age of 86 on September 5, 2008, at his home in Indiana in the United States having been ill for several years.

He was hit by a car in Florida during a walk to promote Tibetan independence and raise awareness of Tibet.

Thubten Jigme Norbu on the cover of his 1961 book Tibet is My Country: Autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, Brother of the Dalai Lama as told to Heinrich Harrer (translation from German by Edward Fitzgerald ) [ 2 ]
Stupa on the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana. The Dalai Lama performed the initiation here in 1999, "to promote world peace."
On the grounds of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana