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   From: peter@dharma.dnsdojo.org   
      
   à½¦à¾¥à¾„ི་ལོ ༢༠༡༢ ལོའི་ ཟླ ༡ ཚེས ༨   
   à½‰à½²à½“ བོད་མི་རིག་ཀྱི་ཆེད   
   ¼‹à½‘ུ་སà¾�ུ་ལས་མེར་བསྲེགས༠  
   à½–à½�ང་བའི་ སྤྲུལ་རི   
   à½“་པོ་ཆེ བསོ་བྷ་ལགས་གྱི   
   ¼‹à½¦à¾�ུ་པར་ལ་མཇལ་རོག་གནང་༠  
      
   Golok Tulku Sobha, highly respected lama of Nyenmo Gonpa in Tharlak set   
   himself in fire the 8th January 2012. His mother   
   and father are from Golok Gabde. He had many students and took carre of old   
   people and of many schools in Golok region,   
   Amdo. He was also the head of Tongkyab Gonpa in Golok. Tongkyab Gonpa and   
   Nyenmo Gonpa counte together more than   
   500 monks.   
   Before his self-immolation, he climbed a local hill, burned incense, prayed   
   and posted many flyers around the walls of Tharlak   
   County.   
      
   This is a translation of Sobha tulku's flyer:   
   "I am self-immolating to commemorate Tibetans who have self-immolated since   
   2009 for our national   
   freedom and religious freedom, and for liberty and freedom of speech.   
   I am not self-immolating for my personal interests or problems, but I do it   
   for 6 million of Tibetan people who have no   
   freedom and for the return of Dalai Lama in Tibet. Tibetan people need to   
   unite to help each other and to work hard for the   
   future of Tibet.   
      
   Don't loose hope, there will be a happy day."   
      
   Dressed in the yellow outer gown of an ordained monk, he set himself alight at   
   around 6 a.m. after he drank and threw   
   kerosene all over his body.   
   Lama Sobha was so generous and so beloved that almoust 2000 Tibetan nomads   
   marched to the police station to demand his   
   remains, and when their request was denied, the protesters smashed doors of   
   the local police station to get his remains by   
   themselves.   
   When the police finally handed over Tulku Sobha's remains, the protesters   
   paraded the body in the streets.   
   Tibetans planned to organize a large prayer session comprising about 2,000   
   people at Sobha's monastery.   
   Next day in Golok, Tibet, so many people came to the Tulku Sobha's   
   (བསོ་བྷ༠  
   ) home in Tharlag (དར་ལག་རྫོང) to give him homage,   
   that some of them have to wait next day to see his body. More and more people   
   are coming from all sides of Machu river.   
   Traditional prayers will be accomplished in his home in Tharlag during 7 days,   
   and astrologists will determine the right day   
   and place for his incineration.   
   Today, there is more than 3000 Tibetans in Tharlag and some 4000 policemen and   
   army forces. In Lama Sobha's monastery   
   Tongkyab (སྟོང་སà¾�ྱབས་དགོན) and in Gabde   
   (དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང), his birth place, local population is   
   under very strong Chinese pression.   
      
   Om Mani Padme Hum   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)