12 HISTORY OF SIKHIM AND ITS RULERS. 



the throne), so shortly after his accession the quarrel again broke out, 

 and the latter invited the Bhutanese to invade Sikhim and attack 

 her brother. This intrigue was for a time completely successful. 

 The Deb Raja of Bhutan, sDe-po-bZi-rDar, sent a force, under his 

 celebrated General rTa-pa-Nag-dWang Tin-les and the Dewan Phenlai, 

 which overran Sikhim and seized the palace of Rubdentse and 

 compelled Raja Chador to flee to Tibet via Ham in Nepal. The 

 Blmtanese held the country for some five or six years, and built forts 

 at Ongdo-phodang near Pakhyong, at Takse-gong and Namgyel 

 Tempoo.* The date of this Bhutanese invasion is variously given 

 from 1700 to 1706. 



Mr. Eden writes: — " The Sikhim Raja, who was quite a boy, fled 

 to Lhassa, and the Lhassa Raja, Miung, taught him and supported him, 

 and gave him some taluks, which the Sikhim Raja still holds in Tibet. 

 When the boy had obtained sufficient knowledge and discretion, the 

 Lhassa Raja gave him some men and told him to go back to his 

 country : he sent messengers to raise the Sikhimese, and on hearing 

 of his arrival the Bhutanese evacuated Sikhim and returned ignomi- 

 niously to their own country." But in this account Mr. Eden seems to 

 have by mistake ascribed some events in the life of the succeeding 

 Raja Gyurme to his father Chador. 



If the Reh Umig (chroniclest) of Yes^s DPal hByor is to be 

 trusted, it was to the court of the Mongol Prince Gyalpo Lha-bZan 

 that Chador fled. Gyalpo Lha-bZan became Raja of Tibet in 1702-3, 

 and defeated and killed his predecessor the great Viceroy sDe-Srid 

 Sangs rGyas rGya-mTsho in 1704, whereas Phola Thege-bSod-nams- 

 sTobs-rGyas, otherwise called Gyalpo Mi-wang, did not become 

 Viceroy of Tibet until 1726-27. 



Chador Namgy^ remained several years in Lhassa, studying 

 hard, and gradually rose in scholastic eminence, until be became 

 rChi-Tung-yig to the Dalai Lama (Tshang-dWyans rGya-mTso). 

 This hierarch by some is said to have led a gay and dissolute 

 life, and was accordingly summoned to China to answer for his 

 misconduct. He died or was murdered en route near Lake Kokonor in 

 1704 or 1707. J It was perhaps this departure of his patron for China 

 that influenced Chador to return to Sikhim. However, return he did, 

 accompanied by, or closely followed by. Lama sJig-med-Paw of 

 Hug-pya-gLing in Tibet. 



On the Raja's return the Bhutanese retired and evacuated all 

 Sikhim west of the Tista, but they still maintained their position at 



* They also constructed a flight or road of stone steps from the Eungeet up to Bubdentse, 

 portions of which still remain. -r-crTT r> i t w a loon 



t Translated by Babu S. C. Dass, J. A. S. B.. vol. LVII, Part I, No. 2, 1889. 

 X According to Horace Delia Penna (M., p. 320). 



