(en) Patricia Cronin Marcello, The Dalai Lama. A Biography, Jaico Great Lives Series, Jaico Publishing House, Mumbai, 2009, p. 5-6 : « The farm belonging to Lhamo Dhondup's family was small, and though they were not peasants, neither were they wealthy nobles. They grew barley and buckwheat, which were the main crops throughout Tibet at the time, as well as potatoes. [...] The family's farm normally produced only enough food to sustain them, and they did most of the work, with the help of five regular workers, known as the yuleg. During sowing and harvesting season, fifteen to forty more workers, known as the nyohog, were hired. Choekyong Tsering oversaw them all [...]. »
Raphaël Liogier, A la rencontre du Dalaï-Lama, p. 39 : « dans une famille de fermier relativement pauvre mais indépendante. Même pauvre, une famille indépendante se situe déjà à un niveau honorable dans un pays qui n'avait pas aboli à l'époque (dans les années 1930) le pouvoir féodal »
