Namgyal Lhamo Taklha

Namgyal Lhamo Taklha is a member of the Tibetan community living in exile. Between 1988 and 1994 she was elected to the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration and held the post of Health Secretary in the Central Tibetan Administration Cabinet based in India. Biography Namgyal was born on 5 July 1942 to aristocratic family in Lhasa, Tibet. He father was Dundul Namgyal Tsarong. She is the granddaughter of Dasang Dadul Tsaron, Commander General of Tibet and a close aid and diplomat of the 13th Dalai Lama. While growing up she attended schools in Tibet and in 1951 at the age of nine she was sent to Mount Hermon School in Darjeeling, India. Marriage She married Lobsang Samten, a brother of the 14th Dalai Lama in August 1962 in Darjeeling, India. Career Namgyal has held a number of positions associated with the Central Tibetan Administration and 14th Dalai Lama, who is also her brother-in-law. In the early 1960s she worked as a translator and interpreter at the New Delhi based bureau of the 14th Dalai Lama, she then took up a post at the Tibet Bureau (Geneva) in Switzerland between 1966 and 1972.