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Thubten Jigme Norbu (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇིགས་མེད་ནོར་བུ་ Wylie: Thub-stan ‘Jigs-med Nor-bu) (August 16 1922 – September 5 2008) recognised as the Taktser Rinpoche was a Tibetan lama writer civil rights activist and professor of Tibetan studies and is the eldest brother of the fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. He was one of the first high-profile Tibetans to go into exile and was the first Tibetan to settle in the United States.