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 guerrilla fighters fought the forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Tibet from 1956 to 1974.
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 guerillas 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, the CIA Tibetan Program, which funded the Chushi Gangdruk army, 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.
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by the People's Republic of China in 1959. Tibetan guerrilla group ChushiGangdruk operated out of Upper Mustang with the intention of raiding PLA positions...
nation. Some Tibetan paramilitary groups during the period, such as ChushiGangdruk, received covert material and training support from the Central Intelligence...
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Tibet's democratically elected government based in Dharamshala, India. ChushiGangdruk (Tibet's volunteer defender of Faith), was based in New York City,...
government. During the late 1950s and 60s, the Tibetan guerrilla group ChushiGangdruk operated out of Upper Mustang with the intention of raiding PLA positions...
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rule of the Chinese Communist Party. A resistance group called the ChushiGangdruk was active in the area. In 1956 the monastery was bombed by the PLA...
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