Padma Choling

Padma Choling
པདྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས་ 白玛赤林
Padma Choling at the 2010 National People's Congress
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office 17 March 2018 – 10 March 2023
Chairman	Li Zhanshu
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress
In office 29 January 2013 – 15 January 2017
Preceded by	Qiangba Puncog
Succeeded by	Losang Jamcan
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region
In office 15 January 2010 – 29 January 2013
Party Secretary	Zhang Qingli Chen Quanguo
Preceded by	Qiangba Puncog
Succeeded by	Losang Jamcan
Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region
In office 2003 – 15 January 2010
Preceded by	Gyamco
Succeeded by	Losang Jamcan
Personal details
Born	October 1952 (1952-10) (age 72) Qamdo, Tibet, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Central Party School
Occupation	Politician
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	白玛赤林
Traditional Chinese	白瑪赤林
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Báimǎ Chìlín
Tibetan name
Tibetan	པདྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས་
Transcriptions Wylie padma 'phrin-las Lhasa IPA pɛ́mɑ̀ ʈʰĩ́lɪ᷈ː

Padma Choling (Tibetan: པདྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས་, Lhasa dialect: [pɛ́mɑ̀ ʈʰĩ́lɪ᷈ː]; alternatively Pema Thinley, Pelma Chiley, Baima Chilin;^[1] Chinese: 白玛赤林; born October 1952) is a Chinese retired politician of Tibetan ethnicity. He was the eighth chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), but in January 2013, was replaced by his deputy Losang Jamcan.^[2] Later he served as the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress. As Chairman of TAR, Choling was the "most senior ethnic Tibetan in the regional government",^[3] though he was subordinate to the TAR Communist Party Chief Zhang Qingli, and later his successor Chen Quanguo.^[1]