Yang Chuantang is a Chinese politician who served as the Minister of Transport of the People's Republic of China from 2012 to 2016. He has also served as the vice chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, governor of Qinghai Province, party chief of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and one of the vice chairmen of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The Seventeen-Point Agreement, officially the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, was an agreement between Tibet and the People's Republic of China. It was signed by plenipotentiaries of the Central People's Government and the Tibetan Government on 23 May 1951, in Zhongnanhai, Beijing. The 14th Dalai Lama ratified the agreement in the form of a telegraph on 24 October 1951. The Agreement was legally repudiated by Tibet less than eight years later on 11 March 1959.
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme was a Tibetan senior official who assumed various military and political responsibilities both before and after 1951 in Tibet. He is often known simply as Ngapo in English sources.
Tibetan names typically consist of two juxtaposed elements.
Lhalu Tsewang Dorje commonly known as Lhalu, Lhalu Se, or Lhalu Shape, was a Tibetan aristocrat and politician who held a variety of positions in various Tibetan governments before and after 1951.
The Jamyang Zhepas are a lineage of tulkus of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. They have traditionally been the most prestigious teachers at Labrang Monastery in Amdo, Tibet.
Rinpungpa was a Tibetan dynastic regime that dominated much of Western Tibet between 1435 and 1565. During one period around 1500 the Rinpungpa lords came close to assembling the Tibetan lands around the Yarlung Tsangpo River under one authority, but their powers receded after 1512.
Ngawang Jigme Drakpa was the last ruling prince of Tsang of the Rinpungpa Dynasty. He was also a renowned author. His increasingly chaotic reign ended in 1565, when the Tsangpa dynasty deprived the Rinpungpa of their main possessions.
Dorje Tashi is an entrepreneur in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, formerly the head of the Tibet Shenhu Group (西藏神湖集团), a real estate company which developed hotels and apartment buildings in Lhasa. In June 2010, a Chinese court sentenced him to life in prison.
Dogan Penjor Rabgye, alternate names Raokashag Penjor Rabgye and Phuntsok Rabgye Ragashar, was an ethnic Tibetan general in the People's Liberation Army and a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China originating from Lhasa, Tibet.
Xizang Minzu University, also known as Tibet University for Nationalities, is a Chinese university established to educate ethnic minorities, specifically Tibetans. It is under the jurisdiction of Tibet Autonomous Region, but is physically located in the city of Xianyang in Shaanxi province, near the provincial capital Xi'an.
Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai is the 11th Qamdo Pagbalha Hutuktu of Tibetan Buddhism and a politician of the People's Republic of China. He is a Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and the Honorary President of the Buddhist Association of China. He also formerly served as a Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China. As a Tibetan tulku, he is notable for his willingness to work in the Chinese government, except during the Cultural Revolution.
Che Dalha, also romanized as Che Zala and Qizhala, is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who served as Chairman (Governor) of Tibet Autonomous Region between January 2017 and October 2021. Originally from Yunnan province, he served as Communist Party Secretary of the Tibetan capital Lhasa between 2012 and 2017. Since October 2017, he is the member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
The People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region is the local people's congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Following decisions taken by the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the regional government was officially announced during the first session of the Tibetan People's Congress in September 1965 in Lhasa.
Yangling Dorje is a Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity who served as chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1983 to 1986 and vice chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1986 to 1998.
The Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, also called the Xizang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP Tibet Regional Committee, is the regional committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The CCP committee secretary is the highest ranking post in the region. The current secretary is Wang Junzheng, who succeeded Wu Yingjie on 18 October 2021.
Lhasa No.1 Elementary School, formerly known as Lhasa Elementary School, is located in the Chengguan District, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, and is the first full-time public elementary school in Lhasa.
The Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, abbreviated as the Tibet Autonomous Region CPPCC or the CPPCC Tibet Autonomous Region Committee, is the regional branch of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tan Guansan, a native of Tanjia Village, Zhexi, Xiaoshuipu District, Leiyang City, Hunan Province, is a political figure and military general of the People's Republic of China.
The Tibet Development Fund, the only national public foundation in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, was initiated by the Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. A preparatory committee was formed in April 1987 in Beijing, with both vice-chairmen leading the effort.
