# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sampo-tsewang-rigzin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:01:21.548Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sampo-tsewang-rigzin"
name: "Sampo Tsewang Rigzin"
slug: "sampo-tsewang-rigzin"
description: "Sampho Tsewang Rigzin (1904–1973) was a Tibetan politician and soldier. After the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China in 1951, he joined the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army, attaining the rank of major general (shaojiang) in the latter. He served as a Kalön of the Tibetan Kashag from 1957 to 1959. He was later purged by Chinese officials during the Cultural Revolution and publicly humiliated in a struggle session."
tagline: "Tibetan politician who was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E6%A1%91%E9%A2%87%C2%B7%E6%89%8D%E6%97%BA%E4%BB%81%E5%A2%9E.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1904"
deathDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.23
  momentum:             8.203723535711342
  historical:           5.032904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampho_Tsewang_Rigzin"
    title: "Sampho Tsewang Rigzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampho_Tsewang_Rigzin"
    title: "Sampho Tsewang Rigzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampho_Tsewang_Rigzin"
    title: "Sampho Tsewang Rigzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampho_Tsewang_Rigzin"
    title: "Sampho Tsewang Rigzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%91%E9%A2%87%C2%B7%E6%89%8D%E6%97%BA%E4%BB%81%E5%A2%9E"
    title: "桑颇·才旺仁增"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8320991"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump