Sanggyai Yexe
Sanggyai Yexe | |
|---|---|
| སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས 天宝 | |
| Chairman of Tibet | |
| In office August 1979 – April 1981 | |
| Preceded by | Ren Rong (of the Tibetan Revolutionary Committee) |
| Succeeded by | Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 February 1917 Barkam, Kham |
| Died | 21 February 2008 (aged 91) Chengdu, Sichuan, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Tian Bao | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 天寶 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 天宝 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Sanggyai Yexe | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 桑吉悅希 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 桑吉悦希 | ||||||
| |||||||
| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས | ||||||
| |||||||
Sanggyai Yexe (Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས; Chinese: 桑吉悦希) or Tian Bao (Chinese: 天宝; pinyin: Tiān Bǎo; 9 February 1917 – 21 February 2008) was a Chinese government official of Gyalrong descent. Tian was one of the first ethnic Tibetans to embrace communism and join Mao Zedong's army. Mao's army, and the People's Republic of China, later entered Tibet in 1951.