Wotse (b. 1943), a businessman from Ngaba County, was arrested alongside the Kirti monk Tenzin on 23 May 1998 after returning from India, where he attended Kalachakra initiations and collected information on the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, including speeches by the Dalai Lama. He shared the materials with Tenzin, who copied and distributed them. Both were sentenced to five years' imprisonment for disseminating politically sensitive information and criticizing the Chinese government, and were incarcerated in Maowan Prison.