Minnesota Tibetan Oral History Project: Interview with Namgang Tsering

Titles: Minnesota Tibetan Oral History Project: Interview with Namgang Tsering (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Namgang Tsering was born in Tibet and later moved to India. He studied engineering at the University of Bangalore. Tsering moved to Minnesota in 1993 as part of the United States Tibetan Resettlement Project. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family, parents, school in India, grades, difference in engineering and technology between India and the United States, raising children, community, Buddhism, moving to the US, Minnesota weather, decision to come to the U.S., transportation, adjusting to life in Minnesota, Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), preserving Tibetan culture.

Dates

• 08/20/2005 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Tsering, Namgang
• interviewer: Yangdon, Tenzin
• interviewer: Lenz, Charles

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 104
• Accession Number: AV2005.106.18

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 29 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:00:13 running time

Subjects

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