#characterchallenge 1st Edition - Challenge of influential characters - Character 6 - A Spanish-speaking Lama: Thubten Wangchen

The story of Thubten Wangchen comes loaded with much lack, much sadness, because he had to live a childhood where the invasion of the Chinese to Tibet stole many lives (including that of his mother), they had to leave home and escape with his father and his brother, the years that followed were just as hard, but this did not allow him to define his life, on the contrary ... they allowed him to build him as a human being.

It was at the age of 16 that he decided (with the approval of his father) to study to be a monk and although he had no contacts, influences and much less money, he was able to study in the Dalai Lama's private monastery. Convinced that this was his goal, he studied and increased his dedication and it was in the 80s when life gave him the opportunity to accompany some Spaniards who were in India (who found spiritual values and wanted to open a Buddhist group in Spain) and again Thubten's life took another turn.

When he traveled to new lands with the idea of supporting this new project, he left with the English language as a means of communication between the Spaniards and him, but little by little he was dominating the language and is now known as "The Tibetan monk who speaks Spanish and that he founded the house of Tibet in Barcelona ".

From there there are many interviews he has given, you can find his videos on Youtube, all of interesting topics, in each of them you will see that he expresses himself with a lot of education and with a smile (I remember seeing a video where the interviewer mentioned that I had arrived late and to my surprise this comment did not prevent the interview from being entertaining and much less to steal the smile from the face), at the time I thought that the interviewer's comment had been very inappropriate and that it should have taken many hours of yoga and meditation to contain myself and not to respond to him in an abrupt way, but soon after I understood that this is a philosophy of life.

The Tibetan people do not lose their smile or their spirits despite difficulties and problems. Our smile identifies us, is our culture and our philosophy. Fuente

To not make more extensive the post about my influential character of day 6, I leave you with one of his shortest videos, there you will notice that kind gesture and smile to which I mention, I hope to have presented an interesting human being and that this one I can nourish them through their teachings.