Triumph of The Dalai Lama
In 1641 the leader of the Khoshut Mongols of the Kokonor region, Gushri Khan, set out from his home area and attacked the king of Beri in Kham (East Tibet), who was a practitioner of the Bön religion and persecuted Buddhist lamas. After having defeated Beri he proceeded to attack and capture Karma Tenkyong, in 1642. After a revolt by Tsangpa supporters in the same year, Gushri Khan ordered to put Karma Tenkyong in an ox-hide bag and drown him in a river. Gushri Khan presented Tibet, meaning Ü, Tsang and part of East Tibet, to the Dalai Lama. In this way began the Dharma-based Tibetan state that would last to 1950.
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