Barbara Demick, Tibet's Last Princess Gives a Rare Interview. Los Angeles Times, Sept 11, 2015.
www.latimes.com/world/great-read ... 20150911-story.html
("Gonpo Tso was born a princess. * * * 'I am the daughter of a king' * * * Gonpo is the heir to a now-defunct kingdom known as the Mei that until the mid-20th century was centered in Aba, a predominantly Tibetan city in China's Sichuan province. Until the 1950s, the area was ruled by Gonpo's family. Although the Chinese referred to her father as a tribal chieftain, Tibetans used the word gyalpo, or king, and referred to his holdings as the Mei kingdom. By whatever name, the king reported neither to the Tibetan government in Lhasa nor to Chinese authorities * * * Her father, Rapten Tinley")
My comment: I fail to find Chinese for the proper names. |