Sonam Dolma Brauen
Sonam Dolma Brauen (born 1953) is a Tibetan-Swiss Contemporary painter and sculptor, and the mother of the Swiss-Tibetan artist Yangzom Brauen. Her paintings, sculptures and installations are exhibited in Germany, Italy, in the Netherlands, South Korea, Switzerland and in the USA.
Life and career
Early life
Sonam Dolma was born in Kongpo, Tibet (today Kongpo, Gongbo'gyamda County, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibetan Autonomous Region, China), as the daughter of Kunsang (Mola) Wangmo, a former Bhikkhuni, and Tsering. The family moved from eastern Tibet when the 14th Dalai Lama refuged in 1959 to Dharamsala in northern India. Sonam Dolma was at the age of six when they crossed the Himalayas on foot; Sonam's father and her little sister died. Sonam grew up nearby Dharamsala respectively Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, during the Sino-Indian War in autumn 1962, the family had to move to Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, where Sonam was waitressing in a Tibetan restaurant. One day she served tea to a Swiss from Bern, an ethnologist, fascinated by the Tibetan culture. They fell in love, and married, and soon after, Martin Brauen took Sonam and her mother Kunsang back with him to Switzerland: I would never have decided for myself to leave if Martin had not come and asked me to marry him. Settled in Bern, she learnt Swiss-German. Yangzom was born in 1981, and later her brother Tashi, both raised to be Swiss, but never to forget their Tibetan culture. Now, everywhere Sonam goes, she brings with her tsa tsa (small Votive offerings in the Mahāyāna Buddhism) that her parents carried out from Tibet: They make us remember.
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Sonam (actress)
Sonam Rai(birth name Bakhtawar Murad Khan) (Urdu: بختاور مراد خان ), better known by her screenname Sonam (born 2 September 1972, in India), is a former Bollywood actress and also appeared in Telugu Cinema. She is the niece of actor Raza Murad and great-niece of veteran actor Murad. Her cousin is actress Sanober Kabir.
Career
Sonam was named by her parents (Mushir Khan - father) as "Bakhtawar", which means "the lucky one" or "the fortunate one" in a number of languages in Asia. She renamed herself Sonam to have a milder sounding name to suit the Indian film industry. The name Sonam is of Tibetan origin and means "merit".
She first entered India's Hindi film industry Bollywood after being launched by Yash Chopra in the 1988 film Vijay. She shot to fame with the 1989 film Tridev. She was known for the song Oye Oye...Tirchi Topi Wale in the film which was very popular at the time. In 'Aakhri Ghulam' with 'Mithun Chakraborty. She was also recognized for her performance in Mitti Aur Sona. Earlier, she was known as a sex symbol. She married Rajiv Rai at the age of 19 and declared that she was quitting films. She appeared in over 30 films from 1988 through to 1994.
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