Kammala wannan jumla: Da farko Lithang ta kasance karkashin mulkin Khoshut Khanate. An nada Lamas na Lithang Monastery a matsayin "desi" (gwamna) don gudanar da yankin. A shekara ta 1719, sojojin kasar Sin karkashin jagorancin Yue Zhongqi sun yi tafiya zuwa
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.