Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Notes On Tibetan History of the 18Th Century

Notes On Tibetan History of the 18Th Century NOTES ON TIBETAN HISTORY OF THE 18TH CENTURY BY LUCIANO PETECH I offer here a series of disjointed notes 1), which arose from the 262 accumulation of new material in the course of my readings. The subjects are mostly related to those which I treated many years ago in my book China and Tibet in the early I8th century, Monographies du T'oung Pao, vol. I, Leiden zg5o ; its connected narrative may serve as a background to the present studies. § i. The so-called abdication of the Sixth Dalai-Lama Let us summarize the Tibetan situation at the beginning of the 18th century. Since 1679 the regent (sde-syid) Sans-rgya.s-rgya- Mts,o (1653-1705) was head of the government. In order to secure and prolong his absolute power, he concealed the death of the F'ifth Dalai-Lama (1682). Only in 1697 he officially communicated 263 it to the K'ang-hsi emperor, informing him at the same time that he had long ago found and brought up the new incarnation, who was now enthroned in the presence of imperial representatives as the Sixth Dalai-Lama Ts`ans-dbyans-rgya-mts`o 1). But the new Dalai-Lama was a profligate youth (and a gifted poet besides), whose ways of life soon aroused http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Notes On Tibetan History of the 18Th Century

T'oung Pao , Volume 52 (4): 261 – Jan 1, 1966

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/notes-on-tibetan-history-of-the-18th-century-817sO9PpeZ

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1966 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0082-5433
eISSN
1568-5322
DOI
10.1163/156853266X00044
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

NOTES ON TIBETAN HISTORY OF THE 18TH CENTURY BY LUCIANO PETECH I offer here a series of disjointed notes 1), which arose from the 262 accumulation of new material in the course of my readings. The subjects are mostly related to those which I treated many years ago in my book China and Tibet in the early I8th century, Monographies du T'oung Pao, vol. I, Leiden zg5o ; its connected narrative may serve as a background to the present studies. § i. The so-called abdication of the Sixth Dalai-Lama Let us summarize the Tibetan situation at the beginning of the 18th century. Since 1679 the regent (sde-syid) Sans-rgya.s-rgya- Mts,o (1653-1705) was head of the government. In order to secure and prolong his absolute power, he concealed the death of the F'ifth Dalai-Lama (1682). Only in 1697 he officially communicated 263 it to the K'ang-hsi emperor, informing him at the same time that he had long ago found and brought up the new incarnation, who was now enthroned in the presence of imperial representatives as the Sixth Dalai-Lama Ts`ans-dbyans-rgya-mts`o 1). But the new Dalai-Lama was a profligate youth (and a gifted poet besides), whose ways of life soon aroused

Journal

T'oung PaoBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1966

There are no references for this article.