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encampment of Deba Kyid-Shoi and killed a large number of 
Dingkhors (civil officers) of the Government. On this occasion the 
Karma-pa Lamas became exultant and made a metrical rejoinder to 
the Dalai Lama’s reply by placing their letter before the 
image of Buddha in the Cathedral of Lhasa. This step, which was 
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come to the Dalai Lama was sincere, produced disastrous effects. 
It induced the Yellow-Cap Lamas to invite the help of the Mong- 
olian hordes. About the time that Sonam Namgyal was Deba 
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had marched at the head of a victorious army, having betaken 
himself to worldly life, and become lord temporal and spiritual. 
Later on, again invading U with the Tsang army, he took 
possession of Nefu Dong and all the lands, and some of the smaller 
monasteries of U. 
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that is, shortly after the humiliation of the Yellow-Cap Churc 
and its patron Miw Nehu Dong-pa, the Mongolian army 
king of Tsang and his friend the valiant Karma hierarch failing in 
their military enterprize in Tibet, vege sept? help 9 the vel 
i voted to the ren. 
them nearl twenty years to consolidate their power in Tibet after 
the retirement of the Mongolian hordes from Tibet. When the 
again grown powerful they began persecuting the Yellow- 
Church with greater animosity than before. 
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