Tsering Gyalpo
Tsering Gyalpo (Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་རྒྱལ་པོ, Wylie: tshe ring rgyal po, Tsering Gyalpo), born April 12, 1961 in Langchu district, Gar county, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region and died on Saturday June 27, 2015 in Berlin, was a Tibetologist. He was director of the religion department of the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences from 2000 to 2015.
Tsering Gyalpo was born into a nomadic family in western Tibet, the fourth of nine children. His parents sent him to Lhasa for his education. From there he was sent to Beijing, where he studied at the Minority University and the Department of Ethnology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From 1994, he held a leading position at the Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences (TASS) in Lhasa, where for the last 15 years he was director of the religions section. He strongly influenced the research work of this institute. (Adapted from Source Nov 5, 2025)
