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... The group asked Tsipon Lungshar Dorje Tsegyel (rtsis dpon lung shar rdo rje tshe rgyal, 18811940), who was part of the anti-military faction, why no one from the military was present at the meeting ...

Read more from the biography of Drumpa Namgyel Gyeltsen


Even as the Eleventh Situ and the administration of Tsurpu Monastery (mtshur phu dgon), the main seat of the Karmapa incarnations, were finalizing their search, the Tibetan government in Lhasa, which claimed authority to approve the selection of major incarnations, announced that the Sixteenth Karmapa had been recognized as the son of a cabinet minister named Lungshar Dorje Tsegyel (lung shar rdo rje tshe rgyal, 1881–1940), a man reputed to have desired control over regions of Tibet dominated by the Karma Kagyu ...

Read more from the biography of Rangjung Rigpai Dorje


... On Tsarong's return from India and Nepal, in April 1925, the Tibetan Government sent a special messenger with an order stripping Tsarong of his command of the army: "By the order of His Holiness the Dalai Lama we have decided that the second-in-command, Dzasak Drumpa (dza sag bhruM pa, 1898–1930), can carry on the work of the Army headquarters as there is no anxiety in the country at the moment, so we need not [have] a Commander-in-Chief," although there is evidence that Tsarong’s demotion was part of a larger plot by the cabinet minister Lungshar (lung shar) to seize power himself and who thus needed Tsarong removed from a position of authority ...

Read more from the biography of Tsarong Dasang Damdul