Yamaguchi Zuihō
University of Tokyo
The Intervention by Tümed Kholochi and his Sons in Central Tibet
35th Annual Meeting of the PIAC, 1992
About the time when the Fourth Dalai Lama entered Tibet, Mongol chiefs in the Ordos and Kokonor actively communicated with the patriarchs of the Karma Red Hat and Black Hat Sects, arousing suspicions of the politicized Yellow Hat Sect. Kholochi of the Seven Tümed and Sechen Dayiching of the Yöngshiyebü aggravated the situation by inviting the Red Hat Sect patriarch to Kokonor in 1610. Irritated, the militant Yellow Hat faction and the Skyid shod sde pa incited Kholochi’s two sons to sack Lhasa and make war on the Zhing shag pa regime in Gtsang, already dominant with close ties to the Karma pa Sect. They were put down and punished. Thereafter the Timed army was not allowed to act as long as the Fourth Dalai Lama lived. The Dalai Lama died in 1616. In 1618, while the First Panchen Lama was away in Western Tibet, Kholochi’s son Lha-btsun, his brother and Sechen Dayiching rose in arms together with the militant Yellow Hat faction and fought the Gtsang army but was defeated. Having withdrawn to Kokonor, they resumed offensive in 1620. When the two armies confronted each other at Rkyang than sgang near Lhasa, the Panchen Lama succeeded in negotiating peace. The Fifth Dalai Lama appeared after this incident. About 1630 the Tümed brothers quarreled among themselves and the elder lost and died. Next year the winner too was destroyed by Choghtu Khan of the Khalkha.