Galdantseren
Galdan Tsereng († August or September 1745) was a renowned Dzungars rulers, who ruled from 1727 to 1745. He was the son and successor of Tsewangrabtan and continued its policy with similar success continued.
History
Since the peace of 1724 his kingdom bordered directly with Qing China, which is now next to the Mongols controlled the kindred Choschuten and has now taken seriously as a direct threat to the state. To combat operations there were 1731/32 in the space of Hami and Urumqi, Mongolia. The Dzungars penetrated among the younger Tsereng Dondub prior to the monastery Erdene Dsuu, where they were defeated by Khalka - Prince Tsereng on September 23, 1732 (10,000 deaths). 1734 began re peace negotiations with the definition of the Altai border found their 1739 financial statements. 1735, he sent his first tribute embassy to Beijing.
Even against the Kazakhs, he continued his father's policy, so that large parts of the Great and the Middle Horde had to submit to both him and the Russians. 1741, he sent for example, two armies against the Kazakhs, the Abylai Khan defeated and captured (1741 /42), the Khans Abu'l Muhammed and Baraq moved to position of hostages, again ravaged the Syr Darya region and to the Russian border (1744) came.
Galdan Tsereng was not a primitive nomad chief, he should have done a hundred camels loaded with books with them.
He died in August or September 1745. According to him, his second son Bayan or Tsewang Dordschi Namdschar was used as Khan. He was still too young for the position and was therefore deposed and blinded in 1750 in a coup of some officers in favor of his older brother Lama Dardscha ( erm 1752). Influential Related ( Dawatschi, Amarsanaa ) did not accept the new ruler, and thus began a power struggle that led to the rapid demise of the Dschungarenreiches under interference Qing China.