(en) Jeff Bendix Case anthropologist tells story of Tibet Communist Party founder, New book is oral history, autobiography titled "A Tibetan Revolutionary", July 2, 2004 : « After his release he was rehabilitated and continues to live in Beijing, although he frequently visits Tibet ».
(en) Robert Barnett, The Babas are Dead: Street Talk and Contemporary Views of Leaders in Tibet, in Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (ed. Elliot Sperling), University of Indiana, Bloomington, p. 5 : « Babas are Tibetans from Bathang, the town in eastern Kham on the main route that runs through western Sichuan (or Xikang, as it was known between 1935 until 1955 when it was a separate province) to the eastern border of central Tibet ».
(en) Hartley, Lauren R.,Schiaffini-Vedani, Patricia, Modern Tibetan literature and social change, Durham, Duke University Press, , 382 p., poche (ISBN978-0-8223-4277-9, LCCN2007047887, lire en ligne), p. 37 : « The Republican school started enrolling students in 1938 and was in the Tromzikhang, on the north side of the Barhor. The staff comprised Chinese, Hui, and Tibetan teachers. Baba Püntsok Wanggyel, a progressive pro-Communist Tibetan from Batang (Kham), also taught for a short period in that school. »
(en) Hisao Kimura, Scott Berry, Japanese agent in Tibet: my ten years of travel in disguise, Serinda Publications Inc, 1990, p. 206 : « Her only objection to my friend was that he was not of their faith. More of a Marxist than a Buddhist anyway, Phuntsok Wangyel found a change of religion no great problem, and he quickly arranged to meet four Muslim elders of Wobaling to undergo the necessary initiation ceremony. »
(en) Hartley, Lauren R.,Schiaffini-Vedani, Patricia, Modern Tibetan literature and social change, Durham, Duke University Press, , 382 p., poche (ISBN978-0-8223-4277-9, LCCN2007047887, lire en ligne), p. 37 : « The Republican school started enrolling students in 1938 and was in the Tromzikhang, on the north side of the Barhor. The staff comprised Chinese, Hui, and Tibetan teachers. Baba Püntsok Wanggyel, a progressive pro-Communist Tibetan from Batang (Kham), also taught for a short period in that school. »
(en) Tsering Shakya, The prisoner, New Left Review, 34, July-August 2005 : « The strategy of the tiny Tibetan Communist Party under his leadership during the 1940s was twofold: to win over progressive elements among the students and aristocracy in ‘political Tibet’— the kingdom of the Dalai Lama — to a programme of modernization and democratic reform, while building support for a guerrilla struggle to overthrow Liu Wenhui’s rule in Kham. The ultimate goal was a united independent Tibet, its feudal social structure fundamentally transformed ».
(en) Tsering Shakya, The prisoner, New Left Review, 34, July-August 2005 : « Phünwang gives a lively critical account of the arrogance of certain members of the traditional elite, the cruelty of some of the monks he encountered during his travels and the poverty of the peasants — worse than in China itself — under the heavy taxes and corvée labour system. »
(en) A. Tom Grunfeld, compte rendu de A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye (Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh), in China Review International, Vol. 11, 2004, pp. 351-354 : « As a child Phunwang attended a Chinese government-sponsored school in Batang that had been established to prepare ethnic Tibetans for work in the Guomindang (GMD) government. As his education progressed Phunwang became increasingly disillusioned with the GMD and, coupled with a traditional Khampa (a person from Kham) disenchantment with the Tibetan government in Lhasa, he sought alternative ideologies. It was one of his teachers who introduced Phunwang to socialist ideas, lending him Russian communist books such as Joseph Stalin's On Nationalities, and it wasn't long before Phunwang had embraced communism ».
(en) Andy Newman, Phüntso Wangye - The Tragdy of Tibet's First Communist, Socialist Unity, 1 April, 2008 : « In 1979, in a conversation with a delegation sent by the Dalai Lama, Phuntso Wangye declared, “I was and am still a communist who believes in Marxism… I am a communist, true, but I was also in solitary confinement in a communist prison for as long as 18 years and suffered from both mental and physical torture” but then he does not blame party, at all, rather he says, “I was put into prison by people who broke the laws and violated party discipline and the laws of the country.” »
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(en) CTA's response to Chinese government allegations: Part One, 15 mai 2008 : « [...] after the Central Government and the Dalai Lama have reached a mutual understanding on the principles regarding national sovereignty, appropriate adjustments to the domestic administrative division policy and implementing the right to self-determination, both sides should officially declare in a political statement that friendly relations between them have been restored. ».
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(en) Baba Phuntsok: Witness to Tibet's History, Where Tibetans Write, 26 décembre 2007 : « [...] Hu should welcome back the Dalai Lama to Tibet which Phunwang suggests will be "…good for stabilizing Tibet". In his Third Letter of August 1 2006, Phunwang writes: "If the inherited problem with Tibet continues to be delayed, it is most likely going to result in the creation of ’The Eastern Vatican of Tibetan Buddhism’ alongside the Exile Tibetan Government. Then the ’Tibet Problem’, be it nationally or internationally, will become more complicated and more troublesome." »
(en) Hui Wang, Theodore Huters, The Politics of Imagining Asia, 2011, 368 p., p. 197 : « In a letter he wrote to Hu Jintao, the first-generation Tibetan revolutionary, Phuntsok Wangyal, noted that Tibet depended upon aid from the central government and from the provinces and other cities for 95 % of its financial resources, (93) and that this assistance includes direct financial aid as well as assistance for Tibetan economic development. Note 93 : Phuntsok Wangyal [...], "Xiegei Hu Jintao de Xin" (A letter written to Hu Jintao, http://www.washeng.net.) »
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(en) Hawks blocking Dalai Lama’s return, TibetInfoNet (TIN), 7 mars 2007 : « Phuntsog Wangyal, the 84-year-old Tibetan Communist veteran, has written to President Hu Jintao and condemned "hawks" for blocking the Dalai Lama's return and criticised them as they "make a living, are promoted and become rich by opposing splittism". Phuntsog Wangyal's three letters to Hu have never been made public, however, Reuters has obtained copies of the letters ».
(en) Allegiance to the Dalai Lama and those who "become rich by opposing splittism", TibetInfoNet (TIN), 7 mars 2007 : « The worship of the deity has the ostensible support of both the regional and central party leadership, which have been generous with both financial and administrative support to the pro-Shugden groups and programmes. The rush in championing the Shugden cause gives those cadres supporting it privileged access to funds and enhances their personal stature. In a recently publicised letter to Chinese president Hu Jintao, Communist Party veteran Phuntsog Wangyal spoke of these cadres as people who "make a living, are promoted and become rich by opposing splittism" ».
