Tibetan Communist Party
LeaderPhuntsok Wangyal
Founders
  • Phuntsok Wangyal
  • Ngawang Kesang
Founded1943 (1943)
Dissolved1949
Merged intoChinese Communist Party
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Tibetan Communist Party
Tibetan name
Tibetanབོད་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese西藏共產黨
Simplified Chinese西藏共产党

The Tibetan Communist Party[lower-alpha 1] was a small communist party in Tibet which functioned in secrecy under various names. The group was founded by Phuntsok Wangyal and Ngawang Kesang in 1943. It emerged from a group called the Tibetan Democratic Youth League, formed by Wangyal and other Tibetan students in Lhasa in 1939.[1][2]

The party sought to establish an independent and socialist Tibet encompassing the three traditional regions of Tibet: Ü-Tsang, Kham, and Amdo.[1][3] The party contacted the Soviet embassy in Beijing and asked for the Soviets' assistance as it began planning a socialist uprising in Tibet. Wangyal later contacted the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of India.[4]

The Tibetan communists prepared guerrilla struggles against the ruling Kuomintang while promoting democratic reforms inside Tibet.

In 1949, the party merged into the Chinese Communist Party.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑
    • Tibetan: བོད་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང, Wylie: bod gung khran tang, THL: bö gung tren tang
    • Chinese: 西藏共產黨; pinyin: Xīzàng Gòngchǎndǎng

References

  1. 1 2 New Left Review - Tsering Shakya: The Prisoner
  2. ↑ "Case anthropologist tells story of Tibet Communist Party founder". 2 July 2004. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
  3. ↑ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. University of California Press, 2004. p. xiii
  4. ↑ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. p. 42-44, 78-82
  5. ↑ Melvyn C. Goldstein; Dawei Sherap; William R. Siebenschuh. "A Tibetan Revolutionary". Retrieved 21 June 2008.
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