Desi Sangye Gyatso was the sixth regent of the 5th Dalai Lama in the Ganden Phodrang government.
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13 Facts About Sangye Gyatso
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Sangye Gyatso founded the School of Medicine and Astrology called Men-Tsee-Khang on Chagpori in 1694 and wrote the Blue Beryl treatise.
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Sangye Gyatso's name is sometimes written as Sangye Gyamtso and Sans-rGyas rGya-mTsho.
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Sangye Gyatso ruled as regent, hiding the death of the Dalai Lama, while the infant 6th Dalai Lama was growing up, for 16 years.
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Sangye Gyatso is known for harboring disdain for Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen, although this lama died in 1656, when Sangye Gyatso was only three years old.
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Sangye Gyatso founded the School of Medicine and Astrology called Men-Tsee-Khang on Chagpori in 1694.
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Sangye Gyatso entertained close contacts with Galdan Boshugtu Khan, the ruler of the emerging Dzungar Khanate of Inner Asia, with the aim of countering the role of the Khoshut Mongols in Tibetan affairs.
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Sangye Gyatso was secretly educated in Nankhartse while Sangye Gyatso proceeded to hide the death of his master.
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Sangye Gyatso set about to change this, probably after an attempt by Sangye Gyatso to poison the king and his chief minister.
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Sangye Gyatso pretended to comply and started his journey to the north.
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Sangye Gyatso offered battle but was badly defeated with the loss of 400 men.
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