ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the Hoshut Mongolian Princess Tashi Tsering. Descended from eminent Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhist families, she was still in her teens in 1940 when she inherited the princedom of the Four Mongolian Banners, the only princess in the lineage. Her position as princess also gave her ownership of the Buddhist Labrang Temple. De facto rule of the banners remained until 1954 with her mother, Lumantso (also known as Dekyi Drolma), who had ruled as regent for her infant son (Tashi Tsering’s brother) for some ten years before his early death. Tashi Tsering swung her support behind the Chinese Communist Party in 1952 and worked until her tragic death with the new Chinese government to promote Tibetan religious freedom in Henan Mongol Autonomous County. She was in her early 40s when she was targeted and died in 1966, the first year of the Cultural Revolution.
