# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thupten-kunphel-la
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:04:07.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thupten-kunphel-la"
name: "Thupten Kunphel-la"
slug: "thupten-kunphel-la"
description: "Thubten Kunphel, 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\". 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."
tagline: "Tibetan politician (1905-1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thubten_Kunphela.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1905"
deathDate: "1963-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.84
  momentum:             2.419354838709677
  historical:           5.014076
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thubten_Kunphela"
    title: "Thubten Kunphela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thupten_Kunphel-la"
    title: "Thupten Kunphel-la"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thubten_Kunphela"
    title: "Thubten Kunphela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thubten_Kunpella"
    title: "Thubten Kunpella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E7%99%BB%E8%B4%A1%E5%9F%B9"
    title: "土登贡培"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2676847"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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