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Yellow-cap Church he is known in Tibet by the Tibetan name 
of Tenzing Choigyal, the upholder of religion or Dharma Raja. 
While only thirteen years of age he was entrusted by his 
father with the leadership of the Tartar hordes. He defeated 
the Gokar! Tartars and brought them under subjection in 1593. 
At the age of 25 he was successful in reconciling the Kulmucs 
of Khalkha with the (leuth Mongols who were quarrelling 
on account of a question of precedence between the hierarch of 
Gahdan and Ston skor Sabs-drung named Jetsundampa, and 
thereby averted a fierce and bloody war in the heart of Mongo- 
la. For this service, he was decorated with the holy order of 
Ta Kausri by the Emperor of China in 1605, from which cir- 
cumstance his name Kushri or Gushi Khan had originated. 
At the age of 35, at the earnest entreaties of Desrid Sonam 
Choiphel, Panchen Rinpoche of Tashilhampo and other repre- 
sentatives of the Yellow-Church, he agreed to march into Tibet 
to punish their enemies. In the year Mre-ox in the first 
month, 7z.e., February, he entered Kokonor with a large army. 
- He despatched about 10,000 troops to Chog-thu in Khalkha to 
suppress a rebellion there. His hordes routed 40,000 Tartars in 
a single battle fought at Utan Hogo in one day, and killed the 
Khan. From Kokonor, Gushri Khan moved towards Tibet. He 
reached the great monastery of Gahdan in the auspicious evening 
of the 27th day of the month, when he saw a halo of light 
brightening the horizon at dusk. 
During the winter of that year he again visited Kokonor, and 
from there proceeding to Kham, on the 25th of the 11th month, 
he annexed the whole of King Beri’s dominions to his kingdom. 
Seeing that Beri would be dangerous to both the Church and the 
State he put him to death and released the Lamas of the several: 
Buddhist sects who had been thrown into prison by that apostate 
king of Kham. Gushri then brought under his control all the 
territories bordering on Jangsathul—the dominions of the king 
of Jangsa. Then entering Tibet proper with his invincible hordes, 
he made presents to the great monasteries of the Yellow-Church 
and proclaimed his authority over the whole country. From 
Iuhasa he marched to Tsang with the major portion of his army.. 
In the year called water-horse, on the 8th of the first month, he 
captured thirteen large jongs (forts), including that of Samdub-tse 
at Shigatse, and overthrew the power of the king of Tsang. On 
the 25th of the 11th month he threw him into prison. At first, out: 
of respect for the valour of the fallen monarch, he did not order 
him to be beheaded, but at the representation of the leaders of the- 
Yellow-Church he was found guilty of the highest crime, having had 
established arival monastery of the Red-cap Church,called Tashizil, _ 
in the immediate vicinity of Tashilhunpo, with the object of ruining 
! The Western Mongolians who had become Mahomedans were called. 
Gokar on account of their using the white Pagri, from go head and kar 
white. 
