Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tibetan "desi" (regent) Sangye Gyatso ya ɓoye mutuwar 5th Dalai Lama a 1682, kuma kawai ya sanar da sarki a 1697. Bugu da ƙari ya ci gaba da alaƙa da abokan gaba na Dzungar na Qing. Duk wannan ya haifar da babban rashin jin daɗin Sarkin Kangxi. Daga karshe Sangye Gyatso ya hambarar da shi kuma ya kashe shi ta hannun sarkin Khoshut Lha-bzang Khan a shekara ta 1705. A matsayin lada don kawar da shi daga tsohon makiyinsa Dalai Lama, Sarkin Kangxi ya nada Lha-bzang Khan Regent na Tibet (). Dzungar Khanate, ƙungiyar kabilun Oirat da ke zaune a sassan yankin Xinjiang na yanzu, sun ci gaba da yin barazana ga Daular Qing kuma sun mamaye Tibet a 1717. Sun mallaki Lhasa tare da rundunar soja 6,000 kuma sun kashe Lha-bzang Khan. Dzungars sun riƙe garin har tsawon shekaru uku kuma a Yaƙin Kogin Salween sun ci sojojin Qing da aka aika zuwa yankin a 1718. Qing ba su mallaki Lhasa ba har zuwa 1720, lokacin da Sarkin Kangxi ya aika da rundunar da ta fi girma a can
don kayar da Dzungars.