Simla Convention
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The Simla Convention, officially the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, was an ambiguous treaty concerning the status of Tibet negotiated by representatives of the Republic of China,
Tibetan, British and Chinese participants and plenipotentiaries to the Simla Treaty in 1914
Henry McMahon, the British plenipotentiary
Lonchen Shatra, the Tibetan plenipotentiary
Nanwu Si monastery in Tachienlu
Tibet (1912–1951)
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Tibet was a de facto independent state in East Asia that lasted from the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912 until its annexation by the People's Republic of China in 1951.
Simla Convention
…Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, was an ambiguous treaty concerning the status of Tibet negotiated by representatives of the Republic of China, Tibet and Great Britain in Simla and Delhi during 1913–1914, with the eventual signing of the Convention taking place in Simla. The Simla Convention provided…
Gold Seal presented by the Tibetan people to the 13th Dalai Lama in 1909. Its use symbolized China no longer had nominal rule over Tibet
The 14th Dalai Lama as a young boy.
The approval certificate of the accession of the 14th Dalai Lama issued by the Government of the Republic of China on 1 January 1940
Emblem of Tibet shown at the 1947 Asian Relations Conference, Delhi