Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai

Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai
འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་དགེ་ལེགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai in 1965
11th Pagbalha Hutuktu [fr]
Incumbent
Assumed office 1942
Preceded by	Lobzang Tubten Mipam Tsultrim Gyeltsen [zh]
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference<
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 March 2003
Chairman	Jia Qinglin Yu Zhengsheng Wang Yang Wang Huning
In office 29 April 1959 – 27 March 1993
Chairman	Zhou Enlai Deng Xiaoping Deng Yingchao Li Xiannian
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office 27 March 1993 – 15 March 2003
Chairman	Qiao Shi Li Peng
Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1993
Preceded by	Raidi
Personal details
Born	February 1940 (age 84) Litang County, Kham, China
Political party	Independent
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	帕巴拉·格列朗杰
Traditional Chinese	帕巴拉·格列朗傑
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Pàbālā Géliè Lǎngjié
Tibetan name
Tibetan	འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་དགེ་ལེགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
Transcriptions Wylie vphags pa lha dge legs rnam rgyal Tibetan Pinyin Pagbalha Gêlêg Namgyä

Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai (Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་དགེ་ལེགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Chinese: 帕巴拉·格列朗杰; born February 1940) is the 11th Qamdo Pagbalha Hutuktu of Tibetan Buddhism and a politician of the People's Republic of China. He is a Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and the Honorary President of the Buddhist Association of China. He also formerly served as a Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China.^[1] As a Tibetan tulku (incarnate lama), he is notable for his willingness to work in the Chinese government, except during the Cultural Revolution.^[2]