टोनी हागन

डा. टोनी हागन (१७ अगस्त, १९१७ - १८ एप्रील २००३) एक स्विस भूविज्ञानी र स्विस विकास सहायताका एक अग्रदूत थिए। ज्यूरिखको स्विस फेडरल इन्स्टिट्यूट अफ टेक्नोलोजीबाट इन्जीनियरिन्ग् र भूविज्ञानमा डिप्लोमा लिएर उनी वेल्श पहाडहरुको भूविज्ञानमा विद्याबारिधि लिए र फ़ेरि ज्यूरिख भूवैज्ञानिक संस्थानमा एक अनुसन्धान सहायक बने। हेगनले पहिलो पटक १९५०मा नेपालको भ्रमण एक स्विस विकास सहायता मिशनको साथमा गरे। १९५२मा उनी नेपाल सरकार र संयुक्त राष्ट्र का लागि काम गरे। नेपालको भूगोलको गहन् सर्भेक्षण यहि बेला भएको हो। त्यहि बखतमा उनले नेपाली सांस्कृतिक र जातीय विविधता को ब्रितचित्र पनि बनाए। डा. टोनी हागनले केही किताब पनि प्रकाशित गरे जसमध्ये "नेपाल" (Nepal 99933 13 03 3 ISBN ; 99937099 LCCN) धेरै नाम चलेको एक हो।

नेपाललाइ गरेको अतुलनीय योगदानबापत उनले नेपालको मानार्थ नागरीकता पानि पाएका थिए।

अनुवाद:

Dr. Hagen was the first foreigner to trek throughout Nepal during geological and geographic survey work and mapping on behalf of the United Nations. He clocked over 14,000 km walking several times across Nepal, where the topography is mostly hilly to snow-covered. He filmed Nepalese cultural and ethnic diversity originally as produced as a silent documentary, and later with an English narration in his own voice. Dr. Hagen is also the author of several books including a book entitled Nepal (ISBN 99933-13-03-3; LCCN 99937099)

From 1966 to 1971, as adviser to the UN's Development Program, he was given a special mission n crisis-hit areas worldwide including Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Hagen was a pioneer in the field of development aid, undertaking missions to the Himalayas, eastern Africa and South America in a career spanning over 60 years. After Tibet was taken over by China in 1959, Hagen used his influence to help the Tibetan refugees. During the next years he gained Dalai Lama's confidence. He managed to bring approximately 1,000–1,500 Tibetans to Switzerland. Hagen retired from the UN in 1972, worked as a freelance adviser for organisations involved in foreign aid and later returned to the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich where he lectured on the problems of the developing world. In the early 1980s he established the Toni Hagen Foundation in Switzerland and Nepal to promote democratic reforms and better understanding between different ethnic groups in Nepal.

In 1999 Dr. Toni Hagen filmed a story of his life, The Ring of the Buddha (German title: Der Ring des Buddha), which also included some original materials from the 1960s. Soon after the film was shown, he died in early 2003 at the age of 85 in his home in Lucerne on Good Friday, three days after his wife, Gertrudin Lenzerheide.

External links

• इन्टरनेट चलचित्र डेटाबेसमा The Ring of the Buddha