Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa (Tibetan: ཞྭ་སྒབ་པ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཉི་མ, Wylie: zhwa sgab pa tshul khrims nyi ma, born 7 September 1943 in Lhasa) is a Tibetan banker, activist, writer and poet, one of the first to write in English,[1] composing poems in this language in 1967.
[2] Son of the Tibetan Finance Minister Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, he left Tibet in 1950 to study at St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling in India before working for the Tibetan government in exile and settle in the United States and was naturalized American.
Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa is the youngest son of the Minister of Finance of the Tibetan Government in 1939-1950 Tsepon W. D.
[1] He was educated in Tibet which he left in 1950, then in India at St. Joseph's College in Darjeeling[3] and the United States.
[2] He moved to Cranford, New Jersey, in the United States where he is a naturalized US citizen and lives with his American wife.