Dhongthog Trulku Tenpai Gyaltsen, also known as Dhongthog Rinpoche, a widely respected Tibetan scholar who was also a reincarnated lama died earlier this month in Seattle aged 82. He was author, translator and editor of many important Tibetan literary works, including “New Light English-Tibetan Dictionary” and “The History of Tibet”. He left Tibet in 1957, and later served the Tibetan Government-in-Exile for 13 years before moving to the United States in 1979.