Person:Lhalungpa, Lobsang

Names

Tibetan: སློབ་བཟང་ལྷ་ལུང་པ
Wylie:

• slob bzang lha lung pa
  
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Other Transliterations in use:

• Kungo Losang Lhalungpa
  
• Lhalungpa, Lobsang P.
  

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Other Biographical Information

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Apr 29, 2008
Sad news today from The Interdependent: Lobsang Lhalungpa, the great Tibetan scholar and diplomat whose translation of the The Life of Milarepa is considered a modern classic, died on Monday after sustaining injuries in a two-car accident in Santa Fe, NM. It appears that the driver of the other car, who fled the scene, was drinking at the time of the accident.

Lhalungpa-la's friend Stephen Fox, founder of New Millenium Fine Art and managing editor of the Santa Fe Sun-News, writes:
He translated extensively over the past 40 years for the Dalai Lama, and also translated his English speeches into Tibetan. Many of Lobsang's books were introduced with a short preface by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. He was monumentally instrumental in setting up the Tibetan Government in exile, and also for many years in India coordinated a Tibetan language program on All India Radio, for refugees and exiles, to keep up with the news from their former nation, grabbed by China for its fertility, its open spaces, its Himalayan Melt water sources, et. al.

Lobsang's scholarly efforts were formidable; he often declined contact with the world and its repetitive news, good or bad, when he was in a state of spiritual retreat.

Not many know this, but it was Lobsang's father, who, as Chief Tibetan State Oracle, strongly advised His Holiness to leave Lhasa right away, to escape the Chinese, rather than wait a day or two, as many were advising him. I am sure His Holiness has never forgotten this brilliant stroke of genius, and of course, always conferred with Lobsang Lhalungpa in many matters. Lobsang was very humble about this fact.
In an email to me, Mr. Fox shared His Holiness the Dalai Lama's personal condolences to Lhalungpa-la's children: Your late father will be remembered for his pioneering role in establishing the first Tibetan language programme of All India Radio and for his dedicated life service to the promotion and preservation of our rich spiritual and cultural tradition. He also did much in helping Tibetan refugee communities at a very difficult time in their early years of exile. In his passing way, we have lost a great patriot and scholar.
Our thoughts, prayers, and practice are with Lhalungpa-la's family and friends, especially his widow, Gisela, and his children. Source
Another source on his death

Writings

• Works by Lhalungpa, Lobsang in the research library