Tenzin Dalai Khan
Tenzin Dalai Khan (Mongolian: ᠭᠣᠨᠴᠣᠭᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ gončuɣ dalai qaɣan, Гончиг Далай хаан Gonchig Dalai Khaan, died 1696 or 1701) was the third khan of the
Succession
Tenzin Dalai Khan, also known as Konchok Dalai Khan, is usually depicted as the son of Dayan Khan who ruled as the protector-king ("Dharma king, Protector of the Faith") in 1655-1668. Another version makes him one of the younger sons of the founder of the line, Güshi Khan.[1] When Dayan Khan died in 1668, he was succeeded by Tenzin Dalai Khan. Incidentally the Tibetan regent (desi) Trinley Gyatso died at the same time and was succeeded by Lozang Thuthob. The two new leaders were immediately faced with an attack from Bhutan. Bhutanese forces assaulted the Achok tribe of the Monpa people, who live in the far south-east of Tibet and present-day Arunachal Pradesh. The Achok asked the Tibetan rulers for assistance and such was given. A campaign was carried out at the end of 1668 and reached a satisfactory conclusion. New trouble broke out in 1675 since the Bhutanese attacked Sikkim and Achok. Tibetan and Mongol troops defeated the adversary in a bloody campaign, regained the lost territories and forced the Bhutanese out of Sikkim.[2]
Reign
The reign of Tenzin Dalai Khan started inauspiciously. There were disturbances in the royal family in 1670 and there was therefore dissention among the
Final years
The later years of Tenzin Dalai Khan are not much spoken of in the texts. He did not investigate the whereabouts of the
References
- ^ Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, Tibet: A political history. New York 1967, p. 119.
- ^ Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, One hundred thousand moons. Leiden 2010, pp. 363-4.
- ^ Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa 2010, p. 364; Zahiruddin Ahmad, Sino-Tibetan relations in the seventeenth century. Rome 1970, p. 146.
- ^ Alex McKay (ed.), The history of Tibet, Vol. II, 2003, p. 585.
- ^ Perter Schwieger, The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China. New York 2016, p. 56.
- ^ Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa 1967, p. 122; genealogy given differently by Ya Hanzhang, Biographies of the Tibetan Spiritual Leaders Panchen Erdenis. Beijing 1994, p. 61, who says he was the king's brother.
- ^ Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa 2010, p. 370.
- ^ Yumiko Ishihama, 'New light on the "Chinese conquest of Tibet" (Based on new Manchu sources', in H. Krasso et al. (eds), Tibetan Studies, Vol. I. Wien 1997, p. 422.
- ^ Paul Kocot Nietupski, Labrang monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist community on the Inner Asian borderlands, 1709-1958. Lanham 2011, p. 7.
- ^ Hugh Richardson, Tibet and its history, Boston & London 1984, Appendix, chronological table, p. 307; Giuseppe Tucci, Tibetan painted scrolls. Rome 1949, Vol. I, p. 77; Alex McKay 2003, p. 585; Zahiruddin Ahmad 1970, p. 146; Ya Hanzhang 1994, p. 72.