Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme

Ngawang Jigme Ngapoi ( born 1 February 1910 in Lhasa, Tibet, † December 23, 2009 in Beijing) was a Tibetan politician in the People's Republic of China and a member of the Tibetan civil administration.

Life

Originally from a Tibetan noble house Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme was on the eve of the invasion of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA ) in Western Kham, the west of the former Xikang sent from freshly enthroned 14th Dalai Lama as governor and commander in chief of the Tibetan forces in eastern Tibet after Qamdo. When the city was encircled Qamdo already immediately by Chinese troops, he avoided through the early surrender bloodshed.

As a senior official of the Tibetan delegation sent to negotiate to Beijing, which stopped the temporary rise of the PLA, he and members of his delegation signed the so-called 17- point agreement between the Lhasa government and governance in Beijing. Since this agreement meant the abandonment of the sovereignty claim of the Lhasa government in exchange for guarantees of autonomy and religious freedom, Ngawang Jigme Ngapoi is sometimes portrayed as " traitors" in the Tibetan exile.

His career continued in the political leadership of Tibet Autonomous Region and at the national level. In 1955 he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the PLA. Among other functions, he had many years the position of Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People 's Congress (NPC ) of the People's Republic of China held.

Ngawang Jigme Ngapoi was appointed President of the " Association for the Protection and Development of Tibetan Culture " on 21 June 2004. Jigme died in 2009 at the age of 99 years

Works

• The significant turning point in the historical development of Tibet. On the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet. New star: Beijing, 1991, ISBN 7-80085-467-1. .
• Ngawang Jigme Ngapoi on Tibetan Issues. New Star: Beijing, 1991, ISBN 7-80085-572-4. .
• ༄༅༎རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་འཐུས་ཚོགས་རྒྱུན་མཐུད་ཀྱི་ཀྲུའུ་རིན་ང་ཕོད་ངག་དབང་འཇིགས་མེད་ཀྱིས་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་ཀྱི་སྐབས་ལྔ་པའི་མི་དམངས་འཐུས་འཐུས་ཚོགས་དུ་ཐེངས་གཉིས་པའི་ཐོག་གནང་བའི་གལ་ཆེའི་གསུངས་བཤད༎. Lhasa, 1989.