Tsewang Rabtan (fromTibetan:ཚེ་དབང་རབ་བརྟནTsewang Rapten;Chinese:策妄阿拉布坦;Mongolian:ᠴᠡᠸᠡᠩᠷᠠᠪᠳᠠᠨ; 1643–1727) was aChoros (Oirats) prince and theKhong Tayiji of theDzungar Khanate from 1697 (following the death of his uncle and rivalGaldan Boshugtu Khan) until his death in 1727. He was married toLha-bzang Khan's sister.

Tsewang Rabtan married his daughter, Boitalak (博託洛克), to Danjung (丹衷), the eldest son of Lha-bzang Khan in 1714.^[1] He used the occasion to destroy some of Lha-bzang's troops in preparation for an invasion of Tibet. He consolidated Dzungar power by 1715, and in 1717 sent one army of 300 intoAmdo to retrieve the7th Dalai Lama, planning to consolidate Tibetan support by bringing him to Lhasa, and another army of 6000, led by his brotherTseren Dondub, that successfully tookLhasa from theKhoshut and killed Lha-bzang Khan.^[2]

However, the first army failed to acquire the Dalai Lama, having been defeated byQing troops atKumbum. Dzungar troops went on the rampage through Lhasa and its environs, looting, raping and killing. Soon, the Tibetans were appealing to theKangxi 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 theBattle of the Salween River in 1718, Qing troops took Lhasa in 1720during their second and larger expedition.^[3]

After Danjung died circa 1717, allegedly at the hands of Tsewang Rabtan, Boitalak married ataisha or prince of theKhoid, a section of theDzungar people, and later gave birth toAmursana (1723–1757), who would grow up to be Khan of Dzungaria during the reign of theQianlong Emperor.^[1]

• Dzungar–Qing War

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