Name: Tulku Athup/Thubten Nyandak Rinpoche
Age: 47
Status: Died
Father’s Name: –
Mother’s Name: –
Affiliation: Dzogchen monastery, Dartsedo county, Kardze
Location of incident: at his residence in Dzogchen monastery. Dartsedo county, Kardze Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Date of Self-immolation: 2012-04-06

Info: Circumstances around the deaths of a Tibetan religious figure and his niece in Kardze who died in a fire remain unclear. Thubten Nyandak, 45, and his niece Atse, 23 died on April 6, 2012, in their residence at a monastery. New information from the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in Dharamsala, India, indicates that their deaths were due to self-immolation. Tibetan writer Woeser also states that this was a case of self-immolation.