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Non-governmental Organizations and health in developing countries. Surgeon General. National strategy for suicide prevention: goals and objectives for action. Rockville, MD: U. Support Center Support Center. External link. Please review our privacy policy. Monks from Labrang were initially not allowed to go to his home to pray. Graphic images that reached Tibetans in exile depict his burning body near the pilgrimage circuit of the monastery, and one photograph shows a khatag white blessing scarf placed at the spot after his body was removed.

According to reports from exile Tibetans, Dhondup died after his self-immolation and troops took away his body. Troops arrived soon afterwards and put the remains in a large bag and took it away. Local monks then tried to hold prayers for Dhondup but police and monastic officials tried to prevent this happening. Lhamo Kyab leaves a wife and two children, aged 10 and 7. According to Tibetans in exile, Lhamo Kyab was seen running along the road in flames, and calling for the Dalai Lama to come home to Tibet.

The same sources said that police tried to put out the flames, and a local man took off his shirt and tried to fling it over Lhamo Kyab but the blaze was too strong. Info: Tamdin Dorje, the grandfather of a prominent young Tibetan reincarnate lama at Labrang Tashikyil monastery, died after setting fire to himself in the same place as mother of two Dolkar Tso, who self-immolated on August 7, near a white stupa beside Tsoe Gaden Choeling monastery in Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province see ICT report , 7 August The self-immolation is likely to be noted with concern by the authorities due to the connection to the young lama recognised as the 7th Gungthang Rinpoche, Lobsang Geleg Tenpe Khenchen, who was born in in the village of Dzoege, east of Tsoe city, the seat of Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the southern part of Gansu Province.

Info: According to a report by Voice of America , Sangay Gyatso, years old, set fire to himself on October 6, near the local monastery in the town of Tsoe in the northeastern Tibetan area of Amdo. Sangay Gyatso called for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet and the right of Tibetans to freely express their language and religion. He is believed to have died as a result of his protest.

Initial reports from the area tell of heightened tensions in the area and possibly hundreds of security personnel being deployed around the local monastery. Info: Gudrub, a year old writer from neighboring Driru county, set fire to himself and called for freedom in Tibet and for the return of the Dalai Lama.

A doctor later told the group that Gudrub had died, but authorities would not release his body. Info: According to Tibetans in exile in contact with Tibetans in the area, Yangdang set fire to himself along the main road in Dzato county town at around 7 pm, and shouted slogans calling for freedom in Tibet and for the return of the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa a prominent Tibetan lama.

The following day local authorities informed family members that Yangdang would be transferred to a hospital outside the Tibetan area due to his serious condition. However, local authorities later informed family members that Yangdang died while in transport. Passang Lhamo travelled to Beijing to appeal to the central government after local authorities refused toallow her to retain her home.

An image from the area depicts her home in the process of destruction, according to Tibetan sources from the area. Yushu was devastated by a magnitude 6. The town of Kyegu was leveled by the quake, and the subsequent rebuilding process has been fraught with opaque government planning and scant local consultation.

ICT report, Bold protests in earthquake-hit area over government reconstruction plans. According to the Tibetan government in exile Land Grabbing Persists in Kyegudo, A Tibetan Woman Burned Self in Protest , Passang Lhamo set fire to herself after repeated appeals to the central authorities in Beijing failed to yield any concrete results.

The year old was taken to hospital and treated for her burns following her protest, according to the same sources. No more is known about her current condition or whereabouts. Passang Lhamo is the second Tibetan from Kyegudo known to have self-immolated in protest of government policies of evictions and land seizures. Dickyi Choezom a year old mother of two, set fire to herself on June 27, in response to government land seizures and forced evictions.

A severely burned Passang Lhamo in hospital. Info: Two teenage Tibetans, a monk and a layperson who are believed to have been cousins, set themselves on fire on August 27 in Ngaba Chinese: Aba. The self-immolations took place near the eastern gate of Kirti monastery.

Lobsang Damchoe, 17, a former monk, was seen walking with flames shooting from his body before he collapsed to the ground, according to Kirti monks in exile in Dharamsala, India.

It is not known what he shouted or said as he set himself on fire. Chinese security personnel extinguished the flames and took both men initially to the hospital in Ngaba town, but later moved them to a hospital in Barkham. According to the Kirti monks in exile, both young men died in hospital. Lobsang Kelsang, 18, was seen walking with flames shooting from his body before he collapsed to the ground, according to Kirti monks in exile in Dharamsala, India. As Lungtok approached the junction with the central street, a group of policemen surrounded him, put out the flames and took him away.

It is unclear whether he was still alive at that time. Both were taken initially to the county hospital, and then within half an hour they were taken to the Prefecture hospital in Barkham, but according to witnesses, their burns were so severe that there is little hope of survival. It has been learned that Lungtok passed away on 13th, but as he had been taken to Barkham, it is not known whether his body would be returned to family members. Within a few minutes, local security forces arrived at the scene, doused the still fierce flames, and took him away.

According to witnesses, it was not clear at that point whether he was still alive. It has since been confirmed that Chopa passed away just after 3pm on August 10, shortly before reaching Barkham prefecture hospital. The authorities cremated his body there, and returned just a part of the ashes to his family members. Dolkar Tso, who is in her mid-twenties and from a farming family, set fire to herself early this afternoon near a white stupa reliquary building at Tsoe Gaden Choeling monastery in Tsoe City Chinese: Hezuo.

According to Tibetan sources in exile from her home area, she called out for the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet, and shouted that there was no freedom in Tibet. According to the exile Kirti monks, Lobsang Tsultrim attempted to walk along the main street towards the office building of the Forestry Department before he fell to the ground, and armed police emerged and extinguished the flames.

A local Tibetan told the Kirti monks in Dharamsala that Lobsang Tsultrim was still alive when police took him away. He is believed to have been taken to the local government hospital, and then removed elsewhere. His current whereabouts and welfare is not known. Lobsang Tsultrim was born in Ryiwa village, Cha Township in Ngaba, and he joined Kirti monastery when he was very young. He was a classmate of Phuntsog, who self-immolated on March 16, , and is said to have loved playing basketball.

Lobsang Tsultrim is said to have suffered a great deal and may have been detained following the crackdown in Ngaba from March 16, , when at least ten Tibetans were killed by Chinese troops after peaceful protest.

He is the 27th Tibetan from Ngaba to self-immolate since February, , and the eighth Kirti monk to do so. The self-immolation and death today of an year old Tibetan monk from Ngaba is being marked by Tibetans at his monastery, Gedhen Tashi Choeling, an affiliate of Kirti monastery.

Phayul: The Tibetan man who set himself on fire on July 7 has now been identified as Tsewang Dorjee, a year-old nomad from Damshung, central Tibet. Tsewang Dorjee raised slogans and called for the long life of His Holiness, but barely three minutes into his protest, Chinese security forces arrived at the scene, doused the flames and took him to a hospital. In a press release, the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile noted that the entire Damshung region is currently under lockdown and people who witnessed the self-immolation have since been arrested.

Phayul: A Tibetan woman in her 40s, identified as Dickyi Choezom, a mother of two, set herself on fire on June 27, at around 2pm local time in Keygu town near the Dhondupling Monastery. Chinese security personnel at the scene of the protest doused the flames and took her away, reportedly to a hospital in Siling, but no further information is available.

An exile monk with contacts in the region told Tibetan media that police arrested two of her relatives but many Tibetans gathered and started demanding their release and threatening to set themselves on fire if the two were not released, and they were reportedly released later in the day but carried injuries from severe beatings.

ICT Report — April 9, Tenzin Khedup died on the spot while his colleague, Ngawang Norphel was badly burned and is in serious condition at a hospital, according to Lobsang Sangay, a monk in India who is from the Zekar monastery in Yushul, quoting eyewitnesses. Info: Tibetans in eastern Tibet gathered today to mark the self-immolation of a Tibetan from a nomadic family who set fire to himself and died in Chentsa Chinese: Jianza county town in Qinghai the eastern Tibetan area of Amdo.

Images posted online by Tibetans in exile showed crowds gathering to pile khatags Tibetan blessing scarves on the body of Tamdin Thar, who was in his forties or fifties, while massed ranks of armed police gather at the roadside nearby. Armed police were seen extinguishing the flames as Tamdin Thar lay on the ground, still moving slightly, and he was then taken away in a vehicle by security forces.

According to Tibetan sources in exile in touch with Tibetans in the area, he died within hours, and local people gathered in the town calling for the return of his body, despite an increasing number of armed police being deployed.

The body was returned to local people at around mid-day today, according to various sources. The Chinese state media confirmed the self-immolation and death but did not name Tamdin Thar. Info: Rikyo was in her mid-thirties and from a nomadic family. She set herself on fire near to Jonang Dzamthang Gonchen Monastery. The flames around her body were so intense that police on the scene were beaten back by the fire and attempts to extinguish it failed.

Following her self-immolation, her body was taken to the Jonang Dzamthang Monastery and kept there, according to Tibetans in exile who are from the area. Chinese government officials came to the monastery and sought to impose an immediate cremation.

Rikyo was cremated the same day, and a large number of Tibetans converged at a special cremation prayer service near the monastery. According to monks from Kirti Monastery in exile, year old Dargye had entered Kirti monastery as a boy and disrobed a few years ago.

Voice of America Tibetan language service has reported that the two Tibetans, who self-immolated together, worked in a restaurant in Lhasa. Dargye was reportedly from Ngaba Chinese: Aba in Sichuan where most of the self-immolations have taken place.

The self-immolations are the first in Lhasa where Chinese security has been tight since March when protests occurred across Tibet and rocked the capital city.

Nineteen-year old Dorje Tseten had left home after high school and had been renting a room in a house in Lhasa. The entire household was detained soon after his self-immolation. The two Tibetans who self-immolated today were named by two exile Tibetan sources as Choepak Kyap and Sonam. Although paramilitary troops were deployed immediately, local people managed to prevent them from taking away the bodies of the two Tibetans, who had died following the self-immolation, according to the same two sources.

According to the exile Tibetans, who are in contact with Tibetans in the area, the bodies were taken to the monastery in order to carry out prayers, and many other Tibetans are gathering there. It is expected that a cremation and funeral services will be held soon. 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, , in their residence at a monastery.

Tibetan writer Woeser also states that this was a case of self-immolation. Immediately after making the call, he and his niece set themselves on fire. The Beijing-based Tibetan writer Woeser published a photograph on her blog on August 2, of the small wooden building which had caught fire resulting in the deaths of Thubten Nyandak Rinpoche and Atse.

The image shows scorch marks around one of the windows, but Woeser contends that both people would have had time to escape the fire, if they chose to do so. Invisible Tibet, Why are the numbers used for Tibetans who have self-immolated inside Tibet inconsistent? He was also the former abbot of Dzamthang Monastery in Dzamthang Ch: Rangtang County, Ngaba Ch: Aba Prefecture, the site of one self-immolation before his own death, on February 19, , and three more after his death, those of Choepak Kyap and Sonam who jointly self-immolated on April 19, , and Rikyo who self-immolated on May 30, RFA, Lama, nun die in fire — April 6, It is not known when or under what circumstances he left Dzamthang Monastery.

Both Thubten Nyandak Rinpoche and Atse were known to be staunch advocates of Tibetan culture and religion and of unity among Tibetans. Before their deaths, Thubten Nyandak Rinpoche had called family members asking them to bring butter to fuel the lamps he said he was lighting for all of the self-immolators. Fearing closure of the monastery, the monastery officials told the police that Tulku Athup and his niece died due to accidental fire in the house rather than self-immolation.

Chinese police then withdrew from the monastery. Since then the authorities have imposed severe restrictions across the region and cracked down on local Tibetans leaving many of them severely injured. Info: Chimey Palden, a year old monk from Tsodun monastery in Ngaba, set fire to himself, along with fellow monk Tenpa Darjey, aged 22, on March 30, outside the prefectureal government offices in Barkham, Ngaba.

Chimey Palden went to Kirti monastery in Ngaba as a philosophy student in , but stayed only a few months. In , on a visit to Lhasa, he was searched by Public Security personnel, who found a photo of the Dalai Lama, a picture of the Tibetan national flag and a Tibetan song on his mobile phone.

He was detained for more than a month. Info: Tenpa Darjey, a year old monk from Tsodun monastery in Ngaba, set fire to himself, along with fellow monk Chimey Palden, aged 21, on March 30, outside the prefectureal government offices in Barkham, Ngaba. He then returned to Tsodun where he was regarded as one of the best students in the logic and debating class.

He was the youngest of four brothers and sisters. 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, Info: Sonam Dargye, a year old father of three from the town of Rongpo, is the second Tibetan in the Rebkong area to set fire to himself. A video released by VOA and shared by Tibetans on Facebook shows the body of Sonam Dargye still aflame in the middle of the street in Rongpo town, as hundreds of Tibetans gather around.

Info: Lobsang Tsultrim set himself on fire and proceeded to march along the main road in the upper part of Ngaba county town, shouting slogans of protest against the Chinese government. As he walked on from the site of his self-immolation, armed police personnel came running to intercept him, at which he turned and ran back in the other direction, continuing to shout. He was then knocked to the ground by a police officer, and the police extinguished the flames, and threw him into the back of a pickup vehicle.

He was held down by police officers, but was seen to raise his arms while continuing to shout, showing that he was still alive. He was the eldest of four brothers and sisters.

It is the first self-immolation in Rebkong, and the 28th in Tibet since February, Jamyang Palden survived the self-immolation, but his condition is serious, according to Tibetans in exile in contact with those in the area.

Jamyang Palden set fire to himself in Dolma square, near Rongpo monastery, which is the main monastery in Rebkong. Monks and local people took him to hospital, but it seems that he has since been moved back to the monastery. Despite the buildup of troops, images from Rebkong today show local people gathered at the scene of his self-immolation, quietly praying for him.

The gathering led to a peaceful protest, with Tibetans calling for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet. There are fears for the safety of Tibetans in Rebkong due to the military buildup following the self-immolation. Info: An year old male named Dorjee set fire to himself today at around p. It is believed that he died at the scene, and that authorities took away his body.

Rinchen was in her early thirties, and was married to a Tibetan man who had died details of when he died and the circumstances are not clear.

It could not be immediately confirmed whether she had three or four children; the youngest was several months old, and the oldest in their early teens. She died soon afterwards, according to the same sources. Rinchen was the eldest of eight siblings in her family, from Jiashang township in Ngaba.

Info: Nangdrol was the fourth of eight children, and is from Choeje village, Barma township, Dzamthang, the Tibetan area of Amdo. The same sources reported that he died, and his body was taken back to the monastery where traditional Buddhist rituals were carried out for him. According to the same sources, monks did not comply with police orders to hand over the body, and this evening February 19 , more than people had gathered to hold vigil. It has been confirmed that year old Nangdrol, who set himself on fire on February 19 in Dzamthang, Sichuan, was a layperson and not a monk as previously reported, according to Tibetan sources.

According to Tibetans in the area who are in contact with Tibetans in exile, Nangdrol cared passionately about Tibetan culture and language and had urged fellow Tibetans to be united, and to preserve their cultural and religious identity. He was subjected to torture during the five years and three months he was held in custody. Info: At about pm on February 13th, Kirti monk Lobsang Gyatso, age 19, of the Badzritsang house in Naktsangma of Cha township, set himself on fire at the top of the main street of Ngaba town shouting slogans ofprotest against the Chinese government.

In the same moment, armed police and special police officers came and extinguished the fire and took him away while beating him. His present condition and whereabouts are not known. Info: Tenzin Choedron set herself on fire early in the evening on February 11, shouting slogans against the Chinese government, according to monks from Kirti monastery in exile sister monastery to Kirti in Ngaba. She chose the same place as nun Tenzin Wangmo, the Sumdo bridge area below the nunnery, which is around three kilometers from Ngaba county town Tibetan nun dies following self-immolation protest.

Tenzin Choedron did not die immediately, but was taken away by soldiers and police. According to new information today, she died soon afterwards and her funeral ceremony is being arranged. He was at Lab monastery, and set fire to himsef in Tridu town. It is thought that he survived, but it is not clear.

Info: According to two Tibetan monks from Kirti monastery in Dharamsala, India associated with Kirti monastery in Ngaba , the Tibetan set himself on fire at a primary school early in the evening in Ngaba county town in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province the Tibetan area of Amdo. Sources said that the Tibetan seemed to be a monk, but his name and place of origin are not known.

He was taken away by police, and it is not known whether he is still alive. Two monks were also detained from the vicinity. ICT Reports:. The clip can be viewed here. According to exiled Tibetan sources, at around pm he doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire.

He walked into the street calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama and for freedom in Tibet, according to the same sources. Police began to kick and beat him with clubs spiked with nails rather than immediately focusing on putting out the flames. Losang Jamyang died after his self-immolation but reports about the time of his death differ.

He was taken away by police, and one of the most reliable reports suggest that he may have survived until Monday January 16 when he died. Losang Jamyang became a monk at the local Andu monastery of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism as a child, but later joined a primary school Bontse school in Ngaba county and completed his education there.

In he was a leading member of a popular association for the promotion of Tibetan language in his village, and as a result had faced pressure from the local authorities. Info: Sonam Wangyal also referred to as Lama Sobha , a respected religious figure in his local area, drank kerosene and set himself on fire on January 8 early in the morning in Darlag county, Golog Chinese: Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai the Tibetan area of Amdo , according to the Tibetan government in exile.

His self-immolation was said to be linked to lack of religious freedoms in the area. Info: This the first self-immolation to occur in the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the 13th since Kirti monk Tapey set himself on fire on February 27, The state news agency Xinhua confirmed the self-immolation and reported that the nun died after setting herself on fire near her nunnery in Tawu also known as Dawu, Chinese: Daofu county in Kardze.

Nuns began to pray for her. The local authorities have locked down the area, closing a major road in Tawu, and deploying troops to the nunnery.

Info: Dawa Tsering, 38, became the 11th Tibetan to self-immolate as a form of political protest against Chinese rule when he set fire to himself on the morning of October 25 in Kardze Monastery in eastern Tibet.

Dawa Tsering was reportedly participating in a religious ritual inside the monastery attended by hundreds of local people when he set himself on fire. Contrary to common belief, the practice does not originate in the Vietnam era and is not confined to Asia where, thanks to Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions, posthumous cremation is far more common than in the West.

Rather, it is a millennia-old practice in both the West and the East, where it has long commanded mass sympathy and outrage unmatched by other forms of suicide. The sociologist Emile Durkheim separated suicides into four types: the egoistic, the altruistic, the anomic moral confusion , and the fatalistic. Perhaps self-immolation captivates so thoroughly because it wins on all counts.

It is the ultimate act of both despair and defiance, a symbol at once of resignation and heroic self-sacrifice. In Greco-Roman mythology, Heracles and Dido are said to have burned themselves to death, the former out of insanity, the latter out of despair and pride such pride, indeed, that she was willing to see Carthage destroyed just to spite Aeneas.

Croesus may have done the same after losing to the Persians. However, from the historian Eusebios, we know with greater certainty of a more interesting instance of auto-cremation in antiquity: around A. In the sixth century, with Rome sacked and Christianity the official religion of its successor state, Byzantium, a group of heretics known as the Montanists took up the practice, gathering in churches and setting them on fire in protest of changes to the liturgy.

A similar phenomenon appeared in seventeenth-century Russia. Followers of the ascetic Kapiton were at the vanguard of a revolt against government-ordered reforms to the Orthodox Church.

Most of the Old Believers, as they were known, simply refused to follow the new rules and spat at the mention of the Tsar. The Kapitonists took it further. They saw the Tsar as the embodiment of the Antichrist and his meddling in their worship—part of a larger trend towards state centralization that would culminate with Peter the Great—as a sign of end times. The only solution, of course, was to submit themselves to an en-masse second baptism, this time by fire.