Tibetan activist Lobsang Rangzen, who died by self-immolation in New York, honoured with statue in Dharamshala over protest against China’s new law

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Tenzin Kunsel, president of the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, organized the statue inauguration in Dharamshala

DHARAMSHALA: Honouring those who laid down their lives for Tibet’s freedom, a 6.5-foot statue of Tibetan activist Lobsang Rangzen was inaugurated at Lhagyal-ri, behind the Tsuglagkhang Complex, the main Tibetan temple and official residence of the Dalai Lama, in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, to protest against China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Law.Talking to TOI after the inauguration, Tenzin Kunsel, president of the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association, Dharamshala, which organised the function, said Rangzen, 52, a resident of Queens, New York, died by self-immolation outside the U...

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