A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye

A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye

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This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who contro...more
Paperback, 400 pages
Published September 4th 2006 by University of California Press
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Van
The PLA had its problems, but Phuntso will tell you that the Dalai Lama and Tibet's feudal aristocracy needed to be changed.
Lauren
Anyone who wants to learn more about the Tibet situation.
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