Hadn’t Lobga Rangzen just promised to make his famous Tibetan sausages for a party a few days later? Lobga Rangzen spent hours each week at the Tibetan library, talking to Jamyang Norbu about the need for new tactics. During the peak of the immolations in Tibet, Lobga Rangzen had asked him for advice on writing a last statement. At his last dance group meeting, he had given a shirt to Ngawang Tashi, insisting he take it even when Ngawang Tashi said he had plenty. The post The Tibetan Who Set Himself on Fire in Manhattan appeared first on New York Times.