Losang Thonden was born on May 23,1942 in Lhasa, Tibet, to a Wangdue Khangsar family to father Pasang Tsering Khangsar and mother Kungchok Dolma, daughter of Sherpa Gyalpo, a prominent businessman and one of the richest Tibetans in Lhasa in the early 1920s.
Losang Thonden was born on May 23,1942 in Lhasa, Tibet, to a Wangdue Khangsar family to father Pasang Tsering Khangsar and mother Kungchok Dolma. Dolma was the daughter of Sherpa Gyalpo, a prominent businessman and one of the richest Tibetans in Lhasa in the early 1920s.