Photo via the Tibet Post International
On Wednesday, all 56 chapters of the Tibetan Women’s Association held worldwide “solidarity actions,” in the form of peace rallies, candlelight vigils, and prayer services, in commemoration of the Tibetan nun Tenzin Wangmo, the first Tibetan woman to self-immolate in the current wave of protests coming out of Tibet.
Wangmo, in her early twenties, was from Dechen Choekorling nunnery in Ngaba, Tibet, and died after a seven-minute-long self-immolation protest on October 17. She was the fifth Tibetan to have died in recent months from self-immolation, the lighting of one’s body as a form of protest.
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