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'''Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar''' (born on {{birth date|1986|04|13}} in [[Dharamsala]]) is a Tibetan politician, Member of Parliament and President of the Association of Former Tibetan Political Prisoners [[Gu-Chu-Sum Tibet Movement]].<ref>[https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/prisoner-04122019143111.html Tibetan Former Political Prisoner Dies After Years of Ill Health Following Release From Jail], FRG, 12 April 2019</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tibetexpress.net/3101/mp-lhagyari-namgyal-dolkar-elected-new-president-of-gu-chu-sum/|title=MP Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar elected new President of Gu-Chu-Sum|date=30 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/tibetans-in-exile-inspired-by-hong-kong-protests/11480606|title = Tibetans in exile inspired by Hong Kong protests|date = 5 September 2019}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar was born in 1989 in Dharamshala. She attended the School of Tibetan Children's Villages, and then obtained a master's degree in English literature.<ref name="TPiE">{{in lang|en}}[https://tibetanparliament.org/about-tpie/the-successive-tpie/sixteenth-tpie/ Sixteenth TPiE (Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile)]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/25-yr-old-first-Tibetan-to-be-Indian-citizen/articleshow/7323090.cms|title = 25-yr-old first Tibetan to be Indian citizen &#124; India News - Times of India}}</ref><br />
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In 2011, at the age of 25, she was the first Tibetan woman to obtain Indian nationality after the [[Delhi High Court]] ruled in her favour.<ref>Marie-Florence Bennes,[https://books.google.fr/books?id=Kz0eDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT85 Tibetans], [[Henry Dougier]], 2016, {{ISBN|9791031201849}}</ref><ref>{{in lang|en}}{ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/25-yr-old-first-Tibetan-to-be-Indian-citizen/articleshow/7323090.cms 25-yr-old first Tibetan to be Indian citizen]</ref><br />
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In 2012, it began the march for peace and freedom in Tibet, in solidarity with the [[Self-immolation of Tibetan sacrifices]] and the [[List of Tibetan prisoners of conscience|Political prisoners in Tibet]].<ref name="TPiE"/><br />
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She taught literature at DBS College (PG) until 2013, when she joined the [[Association of Tibetan Women in Exile]] as coordinator of the project "Legal Empowerment of Tibetan Women" for 8 months.<ref name="TPiE"/><br />
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From 2013 to 2016, she was Vice-President of the Gu-Chu-Sum Association. In September 2016, she was elected president of this association.<ref name="TPiE"/><br />
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In March 2016, Lhagyari Namgyal Dolkar was elected to the [[2016 Tibetan Legislative Elections|16th Tibetan Legislative Assembly]].<br />
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