Minnesota Tibetan Oral History Project: Interview with Dr. Tsewang Ngodup

Titles: Minnesota Tibetan Oral History Project: Interview with Dr. Tsewang Ngodup (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Dr. Tsewang Ngodup grew up in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India. He attended high school in Dehra Dun, pre-medical school in Chandigarh, and medical school in Amritsar, India. Ngodup has worked as a doctor in the Tibetan camp of Kollegal in Mysore, Karnataka, India, in Chandigarh, in a missionary hospital in Nepal, in the Tibetan Children's Village (TCV), Dharamsala, and in Minnesota. Ngodup moved to Minnesota in 1997 to continue his medical training. His family followed him in 1999. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Parents, family, being the first generation educated, decision to come to the U.S., family separation, Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota (TAFM), community, Tibetan Association of Minnesota (TAM), challenges, including gangs and violence, similarities and differences between Tibetan, Indian, and American culture, adapting to new culture, Buddhism, working as physician in Minnesota, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan Community Center, Tibetan language classes for youth, preserving culture, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit to Minnesota, future plans for the community, obligations to Tibetans in India and Tibet.

Dates

• 07/24/2005 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Ngodup, Dr. Tsewang
• interviewer: Norbu, Dorjee T.
• interviewer: Lenz, Charles

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 104
• Accession Number: AV2005.106.13

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Tibetan Oral History Project' <OH 104>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 22 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:56:40 running time

Subjects

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