Historical Events of 1705 in Tibet. Part 1

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Based on a large corpus of sources in Mongolian, Manchu and Chinese languages from the Chinese archives, the article reconstructs the history of one of the most significant events in the history of Tibet — the assassination in 1705 of the Fifth Dalai Lama’s regent, Sangye Gyatso, by Lhavsan Khan of the Khoshot court. The author thoroughly reproduces a cruel confrontation between the khan and the regent which ended by the latter’s execution and shows why the events of 1705 were of great importance for the history of the Mongols and the Tibetans. A series of events that followed, such as the death of the Sixth Dalai Lama, the enthronement of the “true” Seventh Dalai Lama in Kokonor, the invasion of the Dzungars in Tibet in 1717 and, ultimately, the entry of the Qing army into Tibet eventually led to the establishment of the Qing control over Tibet through the Khoshot Mongols. The author concludes that the events of 1705 became an important historical milestone that had a long-term impact on the formation of a unified multinational state under the Qing rule.

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Irina R. Garri

Doctor of History, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Mon¬golian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies (IMBTS) of the Siberian Branch of the RAS

Email: irina.garri@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2484-653X
Scopus Author ID: 55661148700

Docent, senior research fellow of the Philosophical, Cultural and Religious Studies' Department

Russian Federation, 670047, Ulan-Ude, St. Sakhyanova 6

Oyunbilig Borjigidai

The School of Chinese Classics, Renmin University of China

Author for correspondence.
Email: bilig63@126.com

PhD, Professor, Executive Dean of the School of Chinese Classics

Taiwan, Province of China, Peking

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