{"id":865,"date":"2024-06-07T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/?p=865"},"modified":"2024-08-09T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T10:35:03","slug":"tempa-tsering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/tempa-tsering\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempa Tsering"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-hwrapper valign_top align_left\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h3>Mr. Tempa Tsering<\/h3>\n<p>Tempa Tsering was born in 1950 in Drumpa, Gyaltse, Tibet, and fled to India in 1959. He completed high school at Dr. Grahams Homes in Kalimpong and earned a B.Sc. in Zoology from Madras Christian College. He was the first Tibetan to graduate from this college and held various positions within the Central Tibetan Administration, including interpreter, office secretary, and deputy secretary. He served as the secretary of the Department of Information and International Relations and as chief coordinator at the Chief Representative\u2019s Office in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>Elected as a minister in 2000, Tsering held the portfolio for the Department of Home until 2001. He was nominated as Kalon for the Department of Information and International Relations in 2006 and served as the representative of the Dalai Lama in New Delhi until 2016. He is currently the director for India and East Asia at the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Campaign for Tibet. He married Jetsun Pema, the younger sister of the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_grid cols_2 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\" style=\"--columns-gap:3rem;\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-image us_custom_71ef4643 has_ratio align_none\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\"><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tempa-la-board-600x428-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-image us_custom_cf7820fb has_ratio align_none\"><div class=\"w-image-h\"><div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\"><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tenpatsering-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr. Tempa Tsering Tempa Tsering was born in 1950 in Drumpa, Gyaltse, Tibet, and fled to India in 1959. He completed high school at Dr. Grahams Homes in Kalimpong and earned a B.Sc. in Zoology from Madras Christian College. He was the first Tibetan to graduate from this college and held various positions within the...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-successive-kalon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltibetanreliefcommittee.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}