1934 Khamba rebellion

July 2020 1934 Khamba rebellion 1934 Kham (Tibet province) Rebellion aborted Khamba rebels led by the Pandatsang family Tibet Tibet (1912–1951) Pandastang TogbyePandatsang Rapga TibetRegent of Tibet Khamba tribesmen TibetTibetan Army The 1934 Khamba rebellion was a rebellion in the western regions of Kham in Tibet against the Tibetan Government. It consisted of Khamba tribesmen led by the Pandatsang family; two brothers of the family, Pandatsang Tobgyal and Pandatsang Ragpa, led the revolt. Revolt The Pandatsang were an extremely rich Khampa trading family with enormous influence in Kham. The family leader was Nyigyal. The family's servants often said "Sa spang mda' gnam spang mda'." "The earth is Pangda's, the sky is Pangda's." and "I am connected to Pangda, what are you going to do to me?". They were behind the rebellion against Lhasa in 1934 and the Tibet Improvement Party.27 December 2011 https://books.google.com/books?id=MJ-dCe_MppgC&pg=PA105 Khams Pa Histories: Visions of People, Place and Authority: PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 Lawrence Epstein 2002 Brill illustrated Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Volume 2/4 105 90-04-12423-3 The mastermind of the rebellion was Pandastang Togbye of the rich and powerful Kham Pandatsang family.Melvyn C. Goldstein A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State https://books.google.com/books?id=Upwq0I-wm7YC&pg=PA450 1 1989 University of California Press 978-0-520-91176-5 450 Pandatsang Rapga was the brother of Pandatsang Togbye (also spelled Topgyay), who was a great friend of Thubten Kunphela who was from Nyemo county located between Shigatse and Lhasa, U-Tsang. Partly out of anger over Kunphela's fall from power after the death of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, in 1934 Togbye organized a revolt against the Tibetan government in the areas they controlled in the western part of Kham. (that was about one third of the whole Kham region). His brother had military control while Rapga was more of a "scholar". They aimed to ultimately attack Lhasa, and had to take Chamdo first.Patterson George Neilson Requiem for Tibet https://archive.org/details/requiemfortibet0000patt registration 1990 Aurum Press 978-1-85410-111-2 He did so in the belief that many monks from Kham originating in the large monasteries near Lhasa would support him in this. The Tibetan government knew that the rebellion originated from within Kham. The residence of his family in Lhasa was confiscated, but ultimately negotiations ensued. The reason was that the family was the main exporter of Tibetan wool abroad, and any further incident could affect government funds. As a result of the outcome of the negotiations, the members of the family did not persecute the rebellion further.May 2024 While the Kham rebels were escaping from the Tibetan government forces, they were forced into battle against both the Sichuan warlord Liu Wenhui and the Chinese Communist Party forces which were on the Long March.Arpi Claude The Karma of Tibet http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/TheKarmaofTibet.pdf dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204622/http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/TheKarmaofTibet.pdf 23 September 2015 24 April 2014 95–96 Rapga fled from Kham to Kalimpong via Kanting and Nanking after the revolt failed.http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/TheKarmaofTibet.pdf The Karma of Tibet Arpi Claude 96 24 April 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204622/http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/TheKarmaofTibet.pdf 23 September 2015 dead Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, believes that it was possible that Rapga "was a devout believer in the political ideology of Sun Yat-sen and had translated some of Sun's more important writings into Tibetan" during this rebellion.Tuttle Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China https://books.google.com/books?id=KlOEi9C4T3QC&pg=PA152 November 2007 Columbia University Press 978-0-231-13447-7 152 References China Asia Khamba Rebellion Category:1930s in Tibet Category:1934 in Asia Category:Military history of Tibet Category:20th-century rebellions