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 Qošuud, suddenly sacked his kinsman Erdeni erke toɣtonai, and then he made an attack upon Čaɣan danǰin, who had been got the title of ch’in wang same as Lobdzang. Čaɣan 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 chun (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-ɣar. Generally, this incident is called as “rebellion of Lobdzang danjin” . In this paper, I want to state the causes of this dispute among Ch’ing-hai Qošuud by making use of Manchu documents of Nian Keng-yao.