Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai

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Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai
འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་དགེ་ལེགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress
(8th, 9th)
In office
March 1993 – March 2003
ChairmanQiao Shi→Li Peng
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Assumed office
January 1993
Preceded byRaidi
Personal details
BornFebruary 1940 (age 84)
Tibetan
འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་དགེ་ལེགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་

Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai (

Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China.[1] As a Tibetan tulku (incarnate lama), he is notable for his willingness to work in the Chinese government, except during the Cultural Revolution.[2]

Biography

Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai was born in February 1940 in

Qamdo, Tibet.[citation needed
]

Following the

Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (3rd CPPCC National Committee).[1]

As a Tibetan tulku, he is notable for his willingness to work in the Chinese government since boyhood, except during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976),[2] when he was sent to perform manual labour.[1]

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, he resumed his position as Vice Chairman of the CPPCC, and was most recently re-elected in 2013 to the position in the 12th CPPCC National Committee.

Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress.[1] Since 2002 he has been the Honorary President of the Buddhist Association of China.[1]

Family

Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai had an elder brother named Kamqoin Soinam Gyamco [zh]. According to Chinese sources, he was killed by the rebels during the March 1959 Tibetan uprising, in front of Lhasa's Norbulingka.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai". China Vitae. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-521-78674-4
    .
  3. ISBN 978-7-5085-0816-0
    .
Religious titles
Preceded by Pagbalha Hutuktu [zh]
1942–present 		Incumbent
Assembly seats
Preceded by Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
1993–present 		Incumbent
Government offices
Preceded by President of China Committee of Religion and Peace [zh]
2009–present 		Incumbent
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