On 24th March 2018, Geshe Thupten Wangchen and Mr. Sangduo Jampa, Two members of Tibet in Exile from Europe visited TLA office, they appreciating the work TLA is doing,encouraging all members of TLA try to solve all legal problems that Tibetans are facing, they also suggested to try to give more legal awareness in different Tibetan settlements in India.
Ven Thubten Wangchen was born in 1954 in Tibet, in the village of Kyirong in Tibet. In 1959 he fled to India with his father and joined a school for Tibetan refugees in Dalhousie, northern India. At the age of sixteen, he decided to enter monkhood to study the Buddhist philosophy. He was admitted to Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala. He spent eleven years studying Tibetan Buddhism, his rituals, ceremonies, dances, and mandala construction. At the end of 1981, he moved to Spain as translator of a Tibetan religious master. He then organised conferences, exhibitions and seminars on different areas of Tibetan culture. In 1989 and for three years he became director of the “Lama project”, a video recording program for traditional teachings preserved by elderly lamas.
In order to raise awareness of Tibetan culture and Buddhism, he founded the Tibet House in Barcelona, which was inaugurated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in December 1994. In 2000, Tibet House became a foundation to promote Tibetan culture, human rights in Tibet, and solidarity with exiled Tibetans, particularly in education and health programs. In September 2007, the foundation organised His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s visit to Barcelona. The public lecture “The Art of Happiness” brings together more than 10,000 people at the Palau Sant Jordi in the capital4 On 27 April 2011, Ven Thubten Wangchen was elected as a deputy of the Tibetan Parliament in exile, where he was one of two representatives for Europe in the Tibetan diaspora. In November 2015, he participated in the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Barcelona.