Karma Tenkyong

Desi Tsangpa Karma Tenkyong Wangpo ( Tib. Bstan skyong Karma dbang po, * 1605, † 1642; reg 1621-1642 ) was the last ruler of karma Government or Government of the Karma Kagyu Tsangpa Dynasty ( gTsang pa) Tibet in the 17th century. He reigned from 1621 to 1642. The rule of the rulers of Tsang - a time of Karmapa hegemony - was the last Tibetan dynasty, which ruled on its own.

The Shingshapa of Tsheten Dorje ( zhing shag pa tshe rdo rje brtan ) founded Tsangpa or Desi Tsangpa Dynasty ruled from 1565 to 1642 over large parts of Tibet - including the area of Lhasa. Its capital Samdrubtse ( bSam grub rtse; Shigatse today ) was the political, economic and cultural center of Tibet.

1621 was followed by Karma Tenkyong Wangpo at the age of seventeen, his father Desi Tsangpa Phüntshog Karma Namgyel ( Sde srid gtsang pa rnam rgyal Phun tshogs ).

He was a powerful supporter of the 10th Karmapa Choying Dorje of the Karma Kagyu school and the archenemy of the Gelug School, especially the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatsho ( 1617-1682 ) and the 4th Lama Lobsang Chokyi Penchen Gyeltshen ( 1570 -1662 ).

1642 he was appointed by Gushri Khan, the leader of the Mongols Khoshuud of Kokonor territory, defeated, captured and later killed.

The 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatsho ascended in the conquered with the help of the Mongols Shigatse his throne.

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The historian Lobsang Chokyi Nyima Thuken (1737-1802) of the Gelug School, in his work Crystal of philosophical teaching systems ( Grub mtha ' shel gyi me long) the following:

"At that time the king of dBus and gTsang the sDe srid gTsang was pa This supported as a master of spiritual gifts the Lord the Kar ma pa and held to them by exercising a lot of rejection in terms of dGe lugs pa. This king [= Gushri Khan ], together with a large collection of troops, moved into dBus and gTsang and defeated the whole army of the pa gTsang, took the gTsang pa - prince and his ministers caught and then threw them into prison in her hometown Ne'u in dBus. He brought all areas of dBus and gTsang under his power. He was the king of all three provinces of Tibet and established until completion as a government the white screen with the law. He destroyed all the people who had not been disciplined so that they by rejection had the dGe offended lugs pa. "