(en) Michael Bristow, Dalai Lama's birthplace blocked, BBC News, 18 mars 2008 : « That village, which lies along a pot-holed road, has now been blocked off by Chinese police following the wave of protests across Tibetan areas... Unfortunately, the BBC was not allowed to see the village... ».
(en) Michael Bristow, Dalai Lama's birthplace blocked, BBC News, 18 mars 2008. « It is obviously not a place China wants tourists to visit ».
(en) His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, section From Birth to Exile : « Taktser (Roaring Tiger) was a small and poor settlement that stood on a hill overlooking a broad valley ».
(en) His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, section From Birth to Exile : « His Holiness the Dalai Lama was born on 6 July 1935 to a Tibetan farming family in the small village of Taktser, located in the province of Amdo. ».
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Matthias Hermanns, Le mystère autour du Dalai Lama, in Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft / Études asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse-Asie, tome 2 (1948), cahier 1-2, pp. 133-144, p. 2 : « L'enfant ne savait que le chinois, seul parlé dans la famille ».
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(en) Politically incorrect tourism, The Economist, February 26th, 2009 : « Hardly any locals call it Takster, its Tibetan name. Although 70% of the population is ethnically Tibetan, no one speaks Tibetan fluently ».
(en) Politically incorrect tourism, The Economist, February 26th, 2009 : « Hardly any locals call it Takster, its Tibetan name. Although 70% of the population is ethnically Tibetan, no one speaks Tibetan fluently ».
(en) Politically incorrect tourism, The Economist, February 26th, 2009 : « Xinhua, the official news agency, reported that it cost 350,000 yuan ($51,000) to resurrect, and boasts 61 rooms. In fact, there are six at a push. »
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(en) Jeffrey Hays, Dalai Lama and Politics, in Facts and Details, 2008 : « In 1959, Chinese authorities tore down the Dalai Lama's family home in Taktser and then had it rebuilt during negotiations for his return in 1986. The home is currently cared for by the Dalai Lama's cousin and around 4,000 pilgrims visit it each year. »
(en) Patricia Cronin Marcello, The Dalai Lama. A Biography, Jaico Great Lives Series, Jaico Publishing House, Mumbai, 2009, p. 6 : « Later, he slept with his siblings in the kitchen near the stove, on the planked wooden floor. All interior rooms had this type of floor, except the non-living space in the kitchen, which had an earthen floor. »
(en) Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet Qinghai: Chapter from China Travel Guide, 2012 : « The building is open to foreign visitors only when there are no political tensions in Tibet, and it's been closed to foreigners during March and April in recent years because of a number of sensitive dates during those months. ».
(en) Michael Buckley, Tibet, édition No 2, Bradt Travel Guides, 2006, 310 p. : « Taktser (is) about 7 km from the small attractive monastery of Shadzong ».
(en) John Gittings, Half a century of exile cannot crush Tibetan dreams, Guardian.co.uk, 8 février 2003 : « In 1986 the Chinese government rebuilt the family home which had been destroyed in the cultural revolution, as a gesture in its dialogue with the Tibetan government in exile. Yet no agreement has ever been reached: the house is closed to pilgrims. »
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(en) Bill Allan, Praying for change, sundayherald (Écosse), 24 juin 2009.
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(en) Patricia Cronin Marcello, The Dalai Lama. A Biography (extrait), Jaico Great Lives Series, Jaico Publishing House, Mumbai, 2009, p. 8 ; citation : « Lhamo Dhondup's family had experienced a particular rough period just before his arrival. (...) rather than nurturing rain, only hail fell, which destroyd their crops, bringing on a famine that lasted for three years. Lhamo Dhondup's family remained in Taktser although many families migrated to other parts of Tibet ».
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2013 AFP, « Chine: réfection controversée de la maison natale du dalaï lama », La Dépêche, (lire en ligne, consulté le ).
(en) Nathan Hill, compte rendu de Sam Van Schaik's Tibet: A History, xxiii, 324 pp., Yale University Press, London and new York, 2011, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 75 (1), p. 190-192 : « the remark that "Yonten Gyatso ... remains the only non-Tibetan to have held the role of Dalai Lama" (p. 177) presents a Monpa (sixth Dalai Lama), and a Monguor (fourteenth Dalai Lama) as Tibetan although neither spoke Tibetan natively. » (Pour finir, la remarque selon laquelle "Yonten Gyatso... reste le seul non-Tibétain à avoir exercé la fonction de dalaï-lama" (p. 177) présente un Monpa (le sixième dalaï-lama) et un Monguor (le 14e dalaï-lama) comme Tibétains alors que ni l'un ni l'autre ne parlait le tibétain comme langue maternelle »); voir http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php
(en) Bill Allan, Praying for change, sundayherald (Écosse), 24 juin 2009.
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(en) John Gittings, Thubten Jigme Norbu (notice nécrologique), site theguardian.com, 7 septembre 2008 : « Norbu […] had been recognised by the 13th Dalai Lama […] as the Taktser Rinpoche, one of the highest reincarnates in the region of Amdo (eastern Tibet), which was already under Chinese Nationalist rule. The subsequent discovery of his younger brother as the new incarnate Dalai Lama was not quite so amazing as the usual story makes out. The family was already known in religious circles: the previous Taktser Rinpoche was their father's maternal uncle and one of their own uncles was treasurer of the great monastery of Kumbum. »
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(en) Ananth Krishnan, « Dalai Lama’s birthplace to get a makeover », The Hindu, (lire en ligne, consulté le ).
(en) Taktser Rinpoche: reincarnate lama and brother of the Dalai Lama, « Taktser Rinpoche was born Thubten Jigme Norbu, but according to custom his name was changed when he entered the religious life. The first name, meaning “roaring tiger”, was taken from the village in which he, like the Dalai Lama, was born. Rinpoche means “precious one”, a title given to spiritual masters. »
Encyclopédie Universalis, article dalaï-lama Tenzin Gyatso « village de Takster. Situé dans une région peu fertile de la province d'Amdo, dans l'extrême nord-est du Tibet ». Lire en ligne: http://www.universalis.fr/recherche/?q=Takster&btn_recherche=
Dalaï-lama Tenzin Gyatso (1935- ), Encyclopédie Universalis : « Fils de petits paysans, qui disposaient d'une centaine de têtes de bétail et vivaient principalement du troc, il passa sa petite enfance dans une maison faite de pierre et de boue, avec un toit plat, sans siège ni lit. Sa mère eut seize enfants, dont sept seulement survécurent. »
(en) Yu Zheng, An enigmatic paradox - How a layman sees the Dalai Lama, China View, 13 mars 2009 ; « Pointing at a small white pagoda about 200 meters away down from the residence's front gate, Gonpo said, "You know what – that was an exact place where the Thirteenth Dalai Lama rested himself on his route from Kumbum Monastery to Labrang Monastery." "A prophetical assertion of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama foretold reincarnation of his soul in this particular rural village," said the former primary school teacher. »