Sunday, April 8, 2012
A memorial fund has been set up for Sonam Chodon of El Cerrito and Tshering Rinzing Bhutia of San Francisco, two members of the Tibetan Buddhism community who were among the seven killed by a gunman April 2 in Oakland.
A memorial fund has been set up by the Tibetan Association of Northern California for an El Cerrito woman and a San Francisco man who were among the seven people killed by a gunman on April 2 at Oikos University in Oakland. Sonam Chodon of El Cerrito and Tshering Rinzing Bhutia of San Francisco were both nursing students who were fatally shot in the massacre at the small Christian college, and both were members of the local Tibetan Buddhism community, according to Thepo Tulku, a representative of the Richmond-based Tibetan Association of Northern California. The funds will be used for funeral expenses for the two and for transporting Bhutia's remains back to India, Tulku said. The 33-year-old Chodon (whose name is also spelled Choedon) had…
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The death of nursing student Sonam Chodon, one of seven people slain by a gunman at Oikos University in Oakland Monday, has shocked and grieved her friends in the local Tibetan community, who are holding a prayer ceremony tonight.
El Cerrito resident Sonam Chodon, one of seven people killed Monday morning in the massacre by a gunman at Oikos University, was remembered today, Tuesday, by saddened friends in the local Tibetan community as kind and devoted to caring for others. "The whole of our community is in shock," said Tenzin Tsedup, president of the Richmond-based Tibetan Association of Northern California. The association is holding a prayer ceremony for Chodon, 33, and the other victims at 7 p.m. tonight at its headquarters at 5200 Huntington Ave. in Richmond. Anyone is welcome to attend, Tsedup said. About an hour after the campus killings, police arrested a suspect, One Goh, 43, at a Safeway in Alameda. Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan said Goh was a former…
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Sonam Chodon (or Choedon) of El Cerrito is among the official list of the Oakland massacre victims released today, Tuesday, by the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.
Authorities have identified six of the seven victims in a shooting ramgage Monday at Oikos University in Oakland. According to Alameda County Sheriff's Department spokesman J.D. Nelson, suspected gunman One L. Goh, 43, of Oakland, claimed the lives of (in alphabetical order): The identity of the seventh victim has not yet been released pending notification of next of kin. According to Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan, Goh had been expelled from Oakland's Oikos University for behavioral issues. He was looking for a particular administrator at the school when he started his rampage at about 10:30 a.m. Monday. Goh was also upset with several students, Jordan said. The seven victims killed at the school were mainly students, Jordan said. One…
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A 33-year-old El Cerrito woman from the local Tibetan community was one of the seven people slain by a gunman at Oikos University in Oakland Monday morning, according to the Tibetan Association of Northern California.
Among the seven killed in a bloody rampage by a gunman at Oikos University in Oakland Monday morning was Sonam Chodon, a 33-year-old woman who lived in El Cerrito, according to the Tibetan Association of Northern California. Chodon had lived in El Cerrito for two years with her brother, Jinpa, the association said in a statement that was posted on Facebook. Before coming to the Bay Area, she worked for five years in the Department of Education at Dharamsala, center of the Tibetan government in exile in India, the association said. A 43-year-old suspect, One L. Goh, was arrested at a Safeway in Alameda about 11:15 a.m., roughly 45 minutes after the shooting at the small Chrisitan college that also left three people wounded, according to …
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Meet Thepo Tulku. And be prepared to lose any stereotypes you may have about Starbucks baristas.
Name: Thepo Tulku Age: 56 Occupation: Barista at Starbucks in the El Cerrito Plaza, one of the founders of Bay Area Friends of Tibet Often when I visit Starbucks in the El Cerrito Plaza, I notice a gentleman with smooth brown skin, short gray hair and a tranquil demeanor. He constantly seems to be at the center of a hub of people and camaraderie. When he isn’t working behind the counter at Starbucks, he is dressed in casual clothes. Sometimes he reads quietly in a leather armchair. Other times he talks with people of many cultures and backgrounds. After seeing his face again and again in the center of things, I became curious as to why he had chosen to work at a coffee shop in El Cerrito. He agreed to an interview, and as we talked, his …
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6:37 pm on Saturday, July 23, 2011
I have known Thepo for years and love him dearly. Thank you for recognizing Thepo and all his accomplishments. RYEP more ›