Tapey is a young Tibetan monk from
Kirti Monastery
Kirti Gompa ( bo, ཀིརྟི་དགོན་པ།), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in Ngawa, Sichuan province, in China, but traditionally part of Amdo region. Numerous other associated Kirti monasteries ...
. His attempted
self-immolation on February 27, 2009, in the marketplace in
Ngawa Town
Ngawa or Aba town ( Burmese: ငါဝမြို့, Standard Tibetan: Ngawa) is the seat of Ngawa (Aba) County, within the Ngawa (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan pl ...
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Ngawa County
Ngawa County (, ), or Aba or Ngaba, is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the remote northwestern part of the prefecture, on t ...
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Sichuan, marked the beginning of a
wave of Tibetan self-immolations.
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Tibetan Buddhist monks
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