Nationalism (Mínzú) Democracy (Mínquán) Socialism (Mínshēng) The Tibet Improvement Party (Tibetan: ནུབ་བོད་ལེགས་བཅོས་སྐྱིད་སྡུག, Wylie: nub-bod-legs-bcos-skyid-sdug, lit.

[6] The other core members of the movement were Thubten Kunphela, the Buddhist reformist monk Gendün Chöpel[7] and the poet Canlocen.

[8] Rapga hailed the three principles of Dr. Sun for helping Asian peoples against foreign imperialism and called for the feudal system to be overthrown.

In addition, he stated that "The Sanmin Zhuyi was intended for all peoples under the domination of foreigners, for all those who had been deprived of the rights of man.

Rapga stated that the party goal was revolution and "liberation of Tibet from the existing tyrannical government".

The 9th Panchen Lama Thubten Choekyi Nyima, who was also pro-Chinese and worked with the Republic of China, also adopted the ideas of Sun Yat-sen like Rapga.

[10] The Republic of China Kuomintang government under Chiang Kai-shek sought to extend Chinese influence in Tibet.

Rapga wanted to battle the Tibetan Army with a pro-China Khampa militia, seeking Chiang's assistance in September 1943 right before the Cairo Conference.

[11][12] In 1945, Rapga sent Gendün Chöphel on a mission to Lhasa via Tawang and Bhutan to draw maps of the area, while masquerading as a pilgrim beggar monk.

On 19 June 1946, Rapga's house was raided by the police under British orders for plotting revolution, counterfeiting, and spying.

In 1946, Gendün Chöpel disguised as a monk and went to Tibet on behalf of Rapga, to gather intelligence and support for the party.