Background
Tsewang Rabtan married his daughter, Boitalak (博託洛克), to Danjung (丹衷), the eldest son of Lha-bzang Khan in 1714.
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Tsewang Rabtan married his daughter, Boitalak (博託洛克), to Danjung (丹衷), the 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. However, the first army failed to acquire the Dalai Lama, having been defeated by Qing troops at Kumbum. Qing troops went on the rampage through Lhasa and its environs, looting, raping and killing.
Soon, the Tibetans were appealing to the Kangxi Emperor to rid them of the Dzungars.
The Dzungar occupation of Tibet became more difficult to sustain as time passed and though they managed to defeat a poorly organized Chinese invasion at the Battle of the Salween River in 1718, Qing troops took Lhasa in 1720 during their second and larger expedition. After Danjung died circa 1717, allegedly at the hands of Tsewang Rabtan, Boitalak married a taisha or prince of the Khoid, a section of the Dzungar people, and later gave birth to Amursana (1723–1757), who would grow up to be Khan of Dzungaria during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.