Volume 1

Travels of the Russian mission through Mongolia to China, and residence in Peking, in the years 1820-1821 / By George Timkowski. With corrections and notes by Julius von Klaproth.

  • Yegor Timkovsky
Date:
1827
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Credit: Travels of the Russian mission through Mongolia to China, and residence in Peking, in the years 1820-1821 / By George Timkowski. With corrections and notes by Julius von Klaproth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the pretext of restoring religion ; but in reality in hope of conquering Tibet. The Tibetans sent deputies to the emperor of China, to ask for succours; the court of Peking accordingly sent an army under the command of General Oloun- da. The troops of the rebel were going to re- treat to the north, but being seduced by the black lamas, they’returned, and ventured to op- pose the Chinese battalions. Kang hi, in his anger, sent again six divisions of his army, under the command of one of his sons, who after- wards succeeded him, and at the same time gave to Gardzankiam, who resided in the temple of Tarsa, the title of Dalai Lama, a letter ex- pressive of his favour to him, апа а seal. Yang sin, the commander-in-chief, at the head of a body of troops, destined to replace the pontiff on the throne, marched from Si ning, and passed the frontier; he exterminated the black Jamas, killed Dakdzon, the pretended prince of Tibet, restored peace to the country, and placed Dalai Lama on the throne of Воида]а. In сопзе- quence of these events, Tibet was given to the Dalai Lama, by an imperial ordinance, dated the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the fifty-ninth year of Khang hi, which corre- sponds to the year 1720 of our era. - Other per- sons received the dignity of princes, and the title of Kalion, a kind of Tibetan ministers, with the power of governing Tibet. They were 19