Name: Lobsang Sherab
Age: 20
Status: Died
Father’s Name: Soedon
Mother’s Name: Nyima
Affiliation: Gedhen Tenpheling Monastery, Cha Ruwa, Ngaba
Location of incident: Main road of Chashang, Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
(Ch: Sichuan Province)
Date of Self-immolation: 2012-03-28
Info: Lobsang Sherab A monk at Ganden Tenpeling monastery in Rasuwa, Ngaba Tibetan Amdo. According to the source paramilitary police in Ngaba removed Sherab’s body immediately following his self-immolation, ignoring pleas for his body to be handed over to his family. Sherab had been a monk at the small Ganden Tenpeling monastery in Raruwa since the age of nine. Last October he went to study at Kirti monastery in Ngaba, but had returned home on March 26, 2012. According to a sources, “These days some 300 Chinese government officials of various positions and rank are stationed at Kirti monastery, and throughout Ngaba armed police and special police forces maintain a security clampdown.”
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