Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Da farko Lithang ya mallaki Khoshut Khanate. An nada Lamas na Lithang Monastery a matsayin "desi" (gwamna) don gudanar da yankin. A shekara ta 1719, rundunar sojojin kasar Sin karkashin jagorancin Yue Zhongqi sun yi tafiya don cinye Tibet
, kuma Lithang lama ya mika wuya ga kasar Sin. Kasar Sin ta nada mahaifin mahaifin Dalai Lama na 7 a matsayin shugaba; Lithang lama an nada mataimakin shugaban. A shekara ta 1725, an raba Lithang daga Tibet. Tun daga wannan lokacin, yana ƙarƙashin ikon Sichuan.