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Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa was born in Lhasa, Tibet on September 7, 1943. He was educated in Tibet, India and the United States. He had served the Tibetan Government in-Exile in India and was a senior international banker in the United States until he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in1993. He battled his way to good health through meditation and western medicine but was struck down again with a debilitating stroke in 1999. Despite these setbacks in 2002, Mr. Shakabpa wrote a book of poems entitled, RECORDS D’UN TIBETA, which has been translated and published in the Catalan language by the prestigious Spanish publishing firm, Pages Editors. In April 2002, he received the EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD for Outsanding Achievement in Poetry from the International Library of Poetry. He continues to write poetry and fight for the independence of Tibet, and maintains a healthy attitude toward life.