Tenzin Mingyur Paldron
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Born1984 (age 40–41)
New Delhi, India
Tenzin Mingyur Paldron | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 40–41) New Delhi, India |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Evergreen State College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Thesis | Tibet, China, and the United States: Self-immolation and the limits of understanding (2021) |
Tenzin Mingyur Paldron (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་མི་འགྱུར་དཔལ་སྒྲོན, Wylie: bstan 'dzin mi 'gyur dpal sgron; born 1984), also known as Doc Tenzin, is a Tibetan artist, focused on issues of LGBTQ persons and sexual violence within the Tibetan diaspora.
Tenzin Mingyur Paldron was born as a refugee in New Delhi, India, in 1984.[1]
He attended Seattle Central Community College before receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Evergreen State College, and his Doctor of Philosophy in rhetoric from UC Berkeley in the United States.[1]
In 2011, Paldron co-authored a bill proposed by the Berkeley City Council recognizing self-immolation protests by Tibetans in China as a response to Chinese Government oppression.[2][3]