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Buryat Engineer and his descendants
Rigzin Wangpo, son of the Buryat engineer
During the time of the 13th Dalai Lama, a Buryat Mongol was living in Lhasa, Tibet. He was an
electrical engineer being educated in Russia. He was the first such expert who helped Tibetans establish
the first set of electrical networks in Lhasa in the early 20th century. The engineer had married in Tibet and
had a son named Rigzin Wangpo. The son was a monk in his early life, but later settled down in Kalimpong and got
married. Rigzin Wangpo was well known as a writer, poet and journalist. He was working with a local Tibetan newspaper
in Kalimpong that was run by Khunu Tharchin. He had a divorce later and became a Hinayana monk with an
ordination name Bhikshu Sugata Prajñã. In his later days, he traveled to and lived in Burma and Ceylon
(Sri Lanka). It was believed that he left numerous literary works in the Tibetan language, however, we haven't yet located them. His descendants at present live in Kalimpong. This information was
given by Lama Chimpa.
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