(TibetanReview.net, May02’25) –Kasur Tashi Wangdi, one of the longest serving and most familiar faces in the senior rung of the Tibetan government in exile for decades, has breathed his last in Ottawa, Canada, on May 1, aged 78.
He last visited Dharamshala last year for the release on Jun 7 of his autobiography, My Life: Born in Free Tibet, Served in Exile, which was published by the Library of Tibetan Works Archives.
Born at Sangngag Choeling in Lhuntse County, southern Tibet’s Lhokha region, on Apr 15, 1947, Tashi Wangdi received his early education there before fleeing to India in 1959 in the aftermath of China’s invasion and occupation of his country.
After completing his school education in India and a short stint in the Tibetan government in exile, he studied in England on a British Council scholarship through Ockenden Venture, a refuge...





