ambans

During the following years, they experimented with various methods of administration to maintain control, from appointing "ambans," or high commissioners, to vesting power with a council of aristocrats.

Reincarnation Rift Philip Delves Broughton 2007

None of these satisfied the Chinese, so in 1792, they introduced a new system in which their ambans were given equal status to the senior lamas, the Dalai and Panchen Lamas.

Reincarnation Rift Philip Delves Broughton 2007

Bogle attributed this restriction to the intervention of the Chinese residents, or ambans, stationed at Lhasa, who monitored the direction of Tibetan policy.

Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81 2000

Outside each of the principal towns the Chinese built a fort or gulbagh, in which their garrison resided, and military officers or ambans were appointed to every district.

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

In the year 1749 an unpleasant incident took place through a collision between the Chinese ambans and the

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

The lamas also bitterly resented the assumption by the ambans of all practical authority.

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

At the same time Kanghi sent a garrison to Tibet, and appointed resident ambans at Lhasa, which officials China has retained there ever since.

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

For a time it looked as if the matter might have a very serious ending, but Keen Lung contented himself with sending fresh ambans and an escort to Tibet, and enjoining them to abstain from undue interference with the Tibetans.

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

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