The Rebellion of Lobdzang Danǰin and the Yung-cheng Emperor

The Rebellion of Lobdzang Danǰin and the Yung-cheng Emperor

Kato Naoto
Nihon University

35th Meeting of the PIAC, Taipei 1992

In the fifth month of Yung-cheng 1 (1723), Lobdzang danǰin (Blo bzang bstan ‘dzin), ch’in wang (or ruling prince) of Ch’ing hai Qošüüd, suddenly sacked his kinsman Erdeni erke toγtonai, and then he made an attack upon Cayan danǰin, who had been given the title of ch’in wang same as Lobdzang. Cagan fled into the frontier of Ch’ing. Ch’uan Shan Tsung tu (川陝總督) Nian Keng-yao was appointed to fu yuan ta chiang chün (撫遠大將軍) by Yung-cheng, dispatched to Hsi-ning (西寧), then undertook to settle this dispute. At first, the tayiǰis of Ch’ing hai were obeying Lobdzang the leader, but after the Ch’ing regarded them as rebels to the Ch’ing dynasty they immediately seceded from Lobdzang. Then Lobdzang yielded to Ch’ing troops, and fled under Cevang arabtan of ǰüün-γar. Generally, this incident is called as “rebellion of Lobdzang danǰin”. In this paper, I want to state the causes of this dispute among Ch’ing hai Qošüüd by making use of Manchu documents of Nian Keng-yao.