Lha of Tibet information

Lha (Tibetan: ལྷ, Wylie: lha, b.697 – ?d. r. 704 – 705) was a (De facto) Tibetan Emperor who ruled briefly in 704 to 705. The circumstances of his reign...

Lama in favor of a pretender Dalai Lama. The Khoshut Khanate was ended in 1717 when the Dzungar prince Tseren Dondup invaded Tibet, killed Lha-bzang Khan...

refused by Tibet and the British withdrew. Tibet then organized an army to be stationed at the border, led by Dapon Lhading (mda' dpon lha sding, d.u...

Tsering Dondup, invaded Tibet. The invaders defeated and killed Lha-bzang Khan (the last khan of the Khoshut Khanate), a great-grandson of Güshi Khan and the...

1707), by Lha-bzang Khan as the "true" 6th Dalai Lama – however, he was never accepted as such by the majority of the Tibetan people. List of Panchen Lamas...

spelled Pho-lha-nas) of Tsang and Gangchenney (also spelled Kang-chen-nas), the governor of Western Tibet, expelled the Dzungars from Tibet in 1720. They...

most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism around the 6th century. Tibetan texts refer to the kingdom of Zhangzhung...

(2011), Tibet: A History, Yale University Press Wang, Zhenping (2013), Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War, University of Hawaii...

article lists the rulers of Tibet from the beginning of legendary history. Included are regimes with their base in Central Tibet, that held authority over...

conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is an...

LHA Charitable Trust – Institute For Social Work and Education (LHA) is a grassroots, nonprofit organization, and one of the largest Tibetan social work...

Palden Lhamo ("Glorious Goddess", Tibetan: དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།, Wylie: dpal ldan lha mo, Lhasa dialect: [pantɛ̃ l̥amo], Sanskrit: Śrīdēvī) or Shri Devi is a tantric...

for the reversal of the 1950 annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, and the separation and independence of Greater Tibet from China. It...

welcomed in Amdo by a group of mostly Kagyu monasteries. The Tibetans appealed to the Dzungar people, who invaded Tibet and killed Lha-bzang Khan in late 1717...

(Wylie: gshen lha 'od dkar) or Shiwa Ökar (Wylie: zhi ba 'od dkar) is the most important deity in the Yungdrung Bon tradition of Tibet. He is counted...

the 8th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Born in 1758 at Lhari Gang (Tob-rgyal Lha-ri Gang) in the Upper Ü-Tsang region of southwestern Tibet his father, Sonam Dhargye...

(1686–1725) was a pretender for the position of the 6th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Declared by Lha-bzang Khan of the Khoshut Khanate on June 28, 1707, he was...

established at the Lha-ri stream in Demchog..." Emmer, the Tibet-Ladakh-Mughal War (2007, pp. 99–100): "The frontier with Tibet was fixed at the Lha ri stream...

Lhasa Middle School of the Tibet Autonomous Region (Chinese: 西藏自治区拉萨中学, Wylie: lha sa slob 'bring, ZYPY: ལྷ་ས་སློབ་འབྲིང་) is an autonomous regionally-run...

eldest son of Lha-bzang Khan in 1714. He used the occasion to destroy some of Lha-bzang's troops in preparation for an invasion of Tibet. He consolidated...

chen po, lit. 'Great Tibet'; Chinese: 吐蕃; pinyin: Tǔbō / Tǔfān) was an empire centered on the Tibetan Plateau, formed as a result of imperial expansion...

revitalisation of Tibetan culture.’ " (in French) Style et origine des tapis tibétains. Wang Wenchang and Lha Can, L’économie du Tibet, Collection Tibet, Chine...

), and Lha Thothori Nyentsen (ca. third-century c.e.), during whose reign some sacred Buddhist scriptures are believed to have arrived in Tibet... continued...

1717, the Dzungars conquered Tibet, but were driven out in 1720 by the Qing. From 1755 to 1758, Qing China took advantage of a Dzungar civil war to conquer...

Rinchen Lhamo (18 August 1901 – 13 November 1929), also written as Rin-chen Lha-mo, was a Tibetan writer. Her book, We Tibetans, was published in English...

semantically "wind horse," colloquial meaning soul. In Tibet, a distinction was made between Buddhism (Wylie: lha chos, literally "divine dharma") and folk religion...

taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries). According to some early Tibetan sources like the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century...