Polhané Sönam Topgyé
| Polhané | |||||||||
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| Prince Xizang of the Second Rank | |||||||||
Seal of the Tibetan ruler Polhané Sönam Topgyé, granted by the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing dynasty | |||||||||
| Prince Xizang of the Second Rank | |||||||||
| Reign | 1727 – 1747 | ||||||||
| Predecessor | Khangchenné Sonam Gyalpo | ||||||||
| Successor | Gyurme Namgyal | ||||||||
| Kalön of Tibet | |||||||||
| In office | 1727 – 1747 Serving with Khangchenne Sönam Gyalpo, Ngabo Dorje Gyalpo, Lumpanas Tashi Gyalpo, Jaranas Lodrö Gyalpo, Dokhar Tsering Wangyal, Tönpa Sricho Tseten, Gashi Namgyal Tseten, Drongtse Wangyal Tseten and Gashi Pandita | ||||||||
| Monarch | 7th Dalai Lama | ||||||||
| Born | 1689 | ||||||||
| Died | 1747 (aged 57–58) Lhasa | ||||||||
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Polhané Sönam Topgyé (Tibetan: ཕོ་ལྷ་ནས་བསོད་ནམས་སྟོབས་རྒྱས, Wylie: Pho lha nas bsod nams stobs rgyas; Chinese: 頗羅鼐) (1689 – 12 March 1747) was one of the most important political personalities of Tibet in the first half of the 18th century. Between 1728 and 1747 he was effectively the ruling prince of Tibet and carried royal titles during the period of Qing rule of Tibet. He is known as an excellent administrator, a fearsome warrior and a grand strategist. After the troubled years under the reign of Lhazang Khan, the bloody invasion of Tsering Dhondup and the civil war, his government ushered in a relatively long period of stability and internal and external peace for Tibet.