在酝酿和探索解放西藏的过程中，考虑到西藏是一个特殊的民族地区，为了有利于人民解放军顺利进军，有利于维护西藏人民的利益，有利于加强民族团结，中国共产党确立了和平解放的方式。1949年3月，毛泽东主席根据人民解放战争即将全面胜利的形势指出，待解放的地方按照“北平方式”和平解放的可能性在增加。之后，湖南、宁夏以及与西藏相邻的新疆、云南、西康等省相继以和平方式解放，为和平解放西藏提供了借鉴。1950年1月20日，针对西藏地方政府派出所谓“亲善使团”一事，毛泽东主席授权中央人民政府外交部发言人发表谈话指出：西藏人民的要求是在中央人民政府统一领导下实行适当的区域自治，“如果拉萨当局在这个原则下派出代表到北京谈判西藏的和平解放的问题，那么，这样的代表自将受到接待”。
为争取和平解放西藏，中央人民政府组织开展了大量的政治争取工作。1950年间，西南局和西北局先后四次派出代表或代表团赴西藏进行劝和，以争取十四世达赖喇嘛和西藏地方政府派出代表与中央人民政府谈判和平解放西藏的办法。2月1日，西北局派出藏族干部张竞成携带青海省人民政府副主席廖汉生致十四世达赖喇嘛和摄政达扎·阿旺松饶的书信等赴藏联络。3月底，在中共中央批准和西南局组织下，与西藏政教界有着良好关系的汉族高僧志清法师由成都启程赴藏。7月间，以塔尔寺当才活佛为团长的青海寺院赴藏劝和团从西宁出发。青海省人民政府副主席、著名藏族学者喜饶嘉措向达赖喇嘛和藏族同胞发表广播讲话，呼吁西藏地方政府“迅速派遣全权代表赴京进行和平协商”。7月10日，西康省甘孜白利寺五世格达活佛一行十人从白利寺出发，踏上赴藏劝和征程。然而，这一系列劝和促谈活动，却受到帝国主义侵略势力和西藏亲帝分裂分子的重重阻挠，劝和人员被驱赶或软禁，有的代表团被分解，格达活佛在昌都被投毒致死。
When planning the liberation of Tibet and exploring the way of liberation, the CPC decided on the way of peaceful liberation in view of the fact that Tibet was a special region inhabited by the ethnic minorities, in order to enable the PLA to enter Tibet smoothly, safeguard the interests of the Tibetan people and strengthen national unity. In March 1949 when the people’s Liberation War was about to end with people’s victory, Chairman Mao pointed out that the possibilities of peaceful liberation, like that of Beiping, for other areas were growing. Then Hunan and Ningxia, as well as Xinjiang, Yunnan and Xikang, which all bordered Tibet, were liberated peacefully in succession, afford-ing useful experience for the peaceful liberation of Tibet. On January 20, 1950, in response to the local government of Tibet’s dispatching of a so-called “goodwill mission,” a spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a speech with au-thorization from Chairman Mao, saying what the Tibetan people wished was the exercise of appropriate regional autonomy under the unified leadership of the Central People’s Government, and that “if the Lhasa authorities comply with this principle and send delegates to Beijing to negotiate the peaceful liberation of Tibet, they will be well received.”
To achieve the peaceful liberation of Tibet, the Central People’s Government organized and did a lot of work in political persuasion. In 1950 the Southwest and Northwest bureaux of the CPC Central Committee sent delegates or delegations to Tibet for mediation four times, in order to persuade the 14th Dalai Lama and the local government of Tibet to send representatives to negotiate with the Central People’s Government on the peaceful liberation of Tibet. On February 1 the Northwest Bureau sent a Tibetan cadre, Zhang Jingcheng, to Tibet with a letter for the 14th Dalai Lama and Regent Taktra Ngawang Sungrab from Liao Hansheng, then vice chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Peo-ple’s Government. At the end of March an eminent Han monk, Master Zhiqing, who had good relations with the political and religious circles of Tibet, started for Tibet from Chengdu, with approval from the CPC Central Committee and the support of the Southwest Bureau. In July a delegation composed of members from Qinghai temples and monasteries, led by Taktser Rinpoche of Kumbum Monastery, set out from Xining. Sherab Gyatso, vice chairman of the Qinghai Provincial People’s Government and a leading Tibetan scholar, delivered a radio talk, calling on the local government of Tibet to “quickly dispatch plenipotentiary representatives to Beijing for peace talks.” On July 10 a delegation of ten, including the 5th Gedar Tulku of Beri Monastery in Garze, Xikang, also went to Tibet. However, these mediation activities suffered obstruction from imperialist aggressors and pro-imperialist separatists in Tibet. They were driven away or detained, some delegations were split up, and Gedar Tulku was even poisoned to death in Qamdo.
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