International Campaign for Tibet

Self-immolation at Tibet's Labrang monastery

A khatag (Tibetan white blessing scarf) was placed on the site where Dhondup self-immolated and died today near the entrance of Labrang monastery in Amdo.

October 22, 2012

• A Tibetan man in his sixties called Dhondup set fire to himself today and reportedly died from his injuries.
• Dhondup’s self-immolation is the first at Labrang monastery in eastern Tibet, the second in 48 hours in Gansu province (new information below), and the third self-immolation to take place near a monastery in Gansu in the past 10 days.
• Today’s self-immolation raises the number of self-immolations by Tibetans to 57 since February 2009.

A Tibetan man called Dhondup set fire to himself this morning (October 22) at the side of a temple called Serkhang (meaning golden house or temple) in Labrang Tashikyil (Chinese: Xiahe) monastery in Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province (the Tibetan area of Amdo). 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.

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