(The Dalai Lama turns 75 today) Derge Rain Retreat Festival ,Tibet

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Deg became a capital of a dominion in a 15th century underneath a power of Lodro Tobden, a 31st in a line of a Deg kings. It was he who invited Thang Tong Gyalpo to settle a renowned Gongchen Monastery in a region. The dominion expanded during a 18th century underneath a power of Tenpa Tsering, who conquered territories to a north.

In 1727, a Kingdom of Dege as well as other regions in Eastern Tibet fell underneath a governance of China. It is linked with others of a "more critical districts", as Spencer Chapman termed them, such as Nyarong, Batang, Litang, as well as a five Hor[pa] States underneath a name "Kham", which Chapman describes as "an unfixed tenure befitting to a Tibetan Government, who are disconcertingly deceptive over such sum as treaties as well as boundaries." In 1733. The Yongzheng Emperor granted a aristocrat of Dege standing of Hsuan Wei Ssu, a tall in front of for local chieftains which effectively available him independence, yet he was obliged for paying tribute. In spite of a shift of provenance, a kings of a region one after another their internal struggles, as well as in 1863, order of a dominion was disrupted for two years by a successful advance of Nyarong. Intervention by a army of Tibet restored a kingdom, following a short intermediate governance.

In a early 1900s, Eric R. Coales rebuilt a inform that included report about a "recent" history of a dominion for a British. According to Coales' report, in 1895, a Governor-General of Szechuan sent forces in to Chantui, led by General Chang Chi, who advanced serve in to Dege. The aristocrat as well as his family were imprisoned in Chengdu. By a time domestic amour i! n China had forced a infantry to withdraw, a aristocrat had died, withdrawal at a back of two sons, Doje Senkel as well as Djembel Rinch'en. The former of these enjoyed a await of a Chinese, but a latter, who might have been illegitimate, had backers in Chantui. The two struggled over a bench until 1908, when Doje Senkel appealed for assistance to a Chinese General Chao Eh-Feng, who was upon troops debate in a area to secure a domestic primacy of China. Djembel Rinch'en was driven to take sanctuary with a Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso; Doje Senkel yielded a dominion to China in sell for an allowance. The Chinese defended approach carry out of Dege until 1918.

The palace of a Dege kings was subsequently converted in to a school.
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