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This trenchant analysis of China s catastrophic mistakes in Tibet by one of Tibet s leading Communists proposes a constructive way forward for both Tibet and China through real negotiations with the Dalai Lama and a true autonomy for Tibet. It is essential reading for anyone with Tibet s interests at hear - begining with Hu Jintao.
I debated whether it was neccessary to treat Ngapo Nagawant Jigme and Phunwang in the same manner as the Panchen Rinpoche since the former was a traitor and the latter the man who led the communist forces into Tibet.
In September 2005 it was widely announced through various media that the Chiness Government was about the broadcast a twenty - episode televisions series called Getak Tulku on State-owned TV Channels However.
the decision to telecat the series had to be withdrawn when phuntsok Wangyal published In Memory of Comrode Tashi Wangehuk.
About Author :
Phüntsok was born in 1922 in Batang in the province of Kham in eastern Tibet (in what is now western Sichuan then under the control of Liu Wenhui an important Chinese warlord who was affiliated with the Kuomintang).Phüntsok began his political activism at the special academy run by Chiang Kai-shek s Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission in Nanjing where in 1939 he and a small group of friends secretly founded the Tibetan Communist Party.He was expelled from his school in Nanjing the following year. From 1942 until 1949 he organized a guerilla movement against the Kuomintang which expanded its military influence in Kham.The strategy of the Tibetan Communist Party under his leadership during the 1940s was twofold: Influence and gain support for his cause amongst progressive Tibetan students intellectuals and members of the powerful aristocracy in Central Tibet in order to establish a program of modernization and democratic (i.e. socialist) reform and wage a guerilla war against the rule of Liu Wenhui. For some time Wangyal lectured at Tromzikhang on Barkhor square in the 1940s when it was used as a Republican school.Phüntsok s political goal was to establish an independent and socialist Tibet through fundamental transformations of Tibet s feudal social structures. Ladakh was part of Phüntsok s vision of a united Tibet.He was exiled by the Tibetan government in 1949 and after joining the Chinese Communist Party s fight against the Kuomintang he merged the Tibetan Communist Party with the Chinese Communist Party at the behest of the latter s military leaders. As a result of this merger Phüntsok had to abandon his goals of an independent Tibet.