Chiefdom of Tsanlha

Chiefdom of Tsanlha (Tibetan: བཙན་ལྷ་, Wylie: btsan lha; Chinese: 贊拉土司; pinyin: Zànlā Tǔsī), also known as Chiefdom of Lesser Jinchuan (Chinese: 小金川土司; pinyin: Xiǎo Jīnchuān Tǔsī; Tibetan: གསོའུ་ཀྱིན་ཆྭན་གཡེན་ཧྭ་ཐོའུ་སི), was an autonomous Gyalrong chiefdom that ruled Lesser Jinchuan (present day Xiaojin County, Sichuan) during Qing dynasty. The rulers of Tsanlha used the royal title Tsanlha Gyalpo (Tibetan: བཙན་ལྷ་རྒྱལ་པོ, Wylie: btsan lha rgyal po).^[1]

Chiefdom of Tsanlha བཙན་ལྷ་
1650–1776
Status	Chiefdom under the Chinese Tusi system
Capital	Tsanlha (in present day Xiaojin County)
Common languages	Gyarung
Government	Monarchy
Tsanlha Gyalpo
• 17??–17??	Tse dbang
• 17??–1776	Skal bzang (last)
History
• Established	1650
• Disestablished	1776
Succeeded by Qing dynasty
Today part of	China

The chieftains of Tsanla were descendants of a Bon lama. He established the chiefdom in the end of the Ming dynasty. By the time of the Ming-Qing transition, he swore allegiance to Qing emperor, and was appointed Native Chieftain (Tusi).^[2][3]

Later, Tsanla came into conflict with Chiefdom of Chuchen (Greater Jinchuan). After Jinchuan campaigns, it was annexed by the Qing dynasty.^[2][4]

References

1. 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Simplified Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 352. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.
2. Zhao, Erxun (2003). Qing shi gao. 趙爾巽, 1844-1927. (Di 1 ban ed.). Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju. ISBN 9787101007503. OCLC 55513807.
3. Draft History of Qing, vol. 300
4. Wei, Yuan (2011). Sheng wu ji : fu yi sou kou hai ji. Yang, Shenzhi., Xia, Jianqin., Li, Hu., 杨慎之., 夏剑钦., 李瑚. (Di 1 ban ed.). Changsha: Yue lu shu she. ISBN 9787807615491. OCLC 750093258.