Tethong Thubten Choedhar Rakra RinpocheRakra Tethong Thubten Choedhar (Rakra Rinpoche, རཀ་ར་བཀྲས་མཐོང་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་དར།; 1925-2012) was born in Derge in eastern Tibet. He was a painter, scholar and one of the most skilled practitioners of the art of classical Tibetan poetry. He had studied under the great Tibetan scholar Gendün Chöphel (1903-1951). After spending several years in India, he moved to Switzerland in 1960, taking charge of Tibetan refugee children at the Pestalozzi International Children's Village. He died 2012 in Swiss exile. Read More Read Less