Sanggyai Yexe | |
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| སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས 天宝 | |
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| Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| In office August 1979 – April 1981 | |
| Preceded by | Ren Rong (of the Tibetan Revolutionary Committee) |
| Succeeded by | Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme |
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| Born | 9 February 1917 Barkam, Kham |
| Died | 21 February 2008 (aged 91) Chengdu, Sichuan, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
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| Traditional Chinese | 天寶 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 天宝 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 桑吉悅希 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 桑吉悦希 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས | ||||||
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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.[1] Mao's army, and the People's Republic of China, later entered Tibet in 1951.
- ^ "Early Tibetan Communist who joined Mao's army dies". International Herald Tribune. Associated Press. 26 February 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2008.