After his studies, he planned to become director of the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology and was sent for training at the Consulate of India in Lhasa, where he hold a position in 1955 until its closure during the Sino-Indian War in 1962. He remembers that between 1955 and 1959, some of the work at the consulate was to gather information on the activities of the Chinese army, and was therefore aware of the tension in March 1959. On the evening of 17 March, the atmosphere was particularly tense, and he spent the night with his colleagues at the consulate where he could not sleep. At 2 am, the shelling began, he knew that the 14th Dalai Lama left the Norbulingka, but kept it secret. He decided to go out to see what happens, and found the streets full of Chinese soldiers, shouting and firing at close range. There were masses of corpses. The artillery fired at Potala, the bombing lasted 2 hours, after which the monks got out from the Potala, providing easy targets for Chinese military guns. He also saw two women and a man walking on the road, white scarves at hands as a sign of peace. They were mown down by 4 or 5 shots. In a monastery near the Potala, he saw Chinese soldiers looking for weapons, threatening thirty Tibetans who raised their hands, who were finally shot