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banishment. During his exile Lhabzang had collected about 500 
Tartar troops. Entering Tibet with them he collected a large 
army from the 13 Thikor of Tibet, besides Kongpo and other pro- 
yinces and took possession of the throne. In the year T'ree-bird he 
killed Desrid Sangye Gyatsho. He reigned for nearly thirteen 
ears. 
: Hearing the news of Desrid’s violent death, the Khan of 
Chungar (Zungaria), the left branch of the Cleuth Mongols 
named Hing Thaijé, who was devoted to the Yellow-cap Church, 
sent presents to the Dalai Lama, and with a view to restore peace 
and prosperity in the troubled land of the Lamas, sent his generals 
to invade Tibet with a large army. In the year Pire-bird they 
captured Lhasa, defeating Lhabzang ina battle in which he fell. 
Thus in 1716 ended the short-lived kingdom founded by Gushri 
Khan in Tibet. In the year 1717 the Chungar army, after sack- 
ing the Ningma monasteries of Namgyaling, Dorje Tag, Mindol- 
ling, etc., and making the Yellow-cap Church still more pre- 
dominant all over Tibet, returned to Mongolia. 
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