This paper examines the background to the enthronement in 1707 of the new Sixth Dalai Lama, ngag dbang ye shes rgya mtsho, by Lhazang Khan, by considering it as part of the conflict between Lhazang Khan and the chiefs of the Qinghai Khoshuts. Although earlier studies have recognized that the chiefs of the Qinghai Khoshuts opposed Lhazang Khan because of his arbitrary selection of the new Sixth Dalai Lama, it has to be pointed out that their opposition had in fact begun before this event. In 1706, when Lhazang Khan began to control the government of the Dalai Lama, government finances were limited. Since Lhazang Khan had no firm basis of authority in Tibet, he tried to collect the taxes that the chiefs of the Qinghai Khoshuts levied in bar khams, the center of Eastern Tibet. Lhazang Khan asked the Qing court to force the chiefs of the Qinghai Khoshuts to present the taxes raised in bar khams to the new Sixth Dalai Lama, who was born in bar khams. Because of Lhazang Khan's actions, in 1714, the chiefs of the Qinghai Khoshuts enthroned another Dalai Lama from Eastern Tibet, skal bzang rgya mtsho. They opposed Lhazang Khan and the new Sixth Dalai Lama by presenting the taxes to skal bzang rgya mtsho. These facts suggest that each party enthroned a Dalai Lama born in Eastern Tibet for the purpose of securing their own interests in that area.
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