His parents, Norbu Wangdu and Dolma Tsering, fled Tibet in the 1960s after China’s occupation in the late 1950s. Born in 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rigdol came to the United States in the late 1990s to ...

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It was only this year that Bibeam was given the Buddhist cremation her parents had wanted when she was included in a rare ...

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Lang Pa Cha is a ritual that originated during China's Song dynasty and was brought to Thailand by Chinese immigrants.