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Thubten Kunphel (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཀུན་འཕེལ, Wylie: thub bstan kun vphel, 1905 – 1963), commonly known as Kunphela, was a Tibetan politician and one of the most powerful political figures in Tibet during the later years of the 13th Dalai Lama's rule, known as the "strong man of Tibet".[1][2] Kunphela was arrested and exiled after the death of the Dalai Lama in 1933. He later escaped to India and became a co-founder of the India-based Tibet Improvement Party with the aim of establishing a secular government in Tibet. He worked in Nanking after the attempt to start a revolution in Tibet failed, and returned to Tibet in 1948.[3]
- ^ Goldstein 1989, pp. 147–155.
- ^ Shakabpa 1984, p. 274.
- ^ Goldstein 1989, p. 475.