| Chushi Gangdruk | |
|---|---|
| ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་ | |
 | |
| Leader | Andruktsang Gonpo Tashi |
| Dates of operation | 16 June 1958 – 1974 |
| Dissolved | 1974 |
| Country |  Tibet |
| Ideology | Tibetan nationalism Anti-communism |
Chushi Gangdruk (Tibetan: ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་, Wylie: Chu bzhi sgang drug, lit. 'Four Rivers, Six Ranges') was a Tibetan guerrilla group. Formally organized on 16 June 1958, the Chushi Gangdruk fought the forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1956 until 1974 when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) withdrew its support for the guerrilla group.
The Dokham Chushi Gangdruk organization, a charity set up in New York City and India with chapters in other countries, now supports survivors of the Chushi Gangdruk resistance currently living in India. Chushi Gangdruk also led the 14th Dalai Lama out of Lhasa, where he had lived, soon after the start of the Chinese invasion. During that time, a group of Chushi Gangdruk guerrillas was led by Kunga Samten, who is now deceased.[1] Because the United States was prepared to recognize the People's Republic of China in the early 1970s, funding for the CIA Tibetan program was ended in 1974.[2][3]
- ^ "Membership & Support". Chushigangdruk.org. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- ^ "Resistance and Revolution". Tibet Oral History Project. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ^ Stephen Talty (31 December 2010). "The Dalai Lama's Great Escape". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.