Those who have been to Lhasa may already know the protagonist of our story today.
There is a famous restaurant in Barkhor Street in Lhasa called Maggie Ami, which is a woman's name, and a long time ago, it was also the place where she secretly had a tryst with her lover every night.
Who is Maggie Ami's lover, and why do you have a secret tryst?
All because this man is not an ordinary person, but the 6th Dalai Lama, Changyang Gyatso.
Cangyang Gyatso is also a very talented poet, and everyone must have heard of his most famous love poem, which reads: Living in the Potala Palace, I am the greatest king in the snowy region. Wandering on the streets of Lhasa, I am the most beautiful lover in the world.
Looking at it now, this poem is indeed a true portrayal of himself.
Today, let's learn about the story of the life of the sixth Dalai Lama and the romantic lover.
The Lama and his lovers
The feelings of youth are often the most innocent and unforgettable.
As the reincarnation of the Fifth Dalai Lama, Cangyang Gyatso originally lived carefree in his hometown in southern Tibet.
Like many teenagers, Cangyang Gyatso also has many playmates of similar age, including a girl named Maggie Ami, who is a childhood sweetheart with Cangyang Gyatso.
The fourteen-year-old boy is already very tall, and Cangyang Gyatso's facial features are handsome, and he can also do martial arts, so the beautiful Maggie Ami also likes Cangyang Gyatso very much.
The two often stayed together when they were children, and when they chatted, they always said that after two years, they would call their family to propose marriage, and they could get married.
But everything changed in September 1697, and everyone realized that Cangyang Gyatso was actually the reincarnation of the Fifth Dalai Lama.
In this way, Cangyang Gyatso could no longer marry Maji Ami, and was greeted by a mighty man and left southern Tibet.
When he left, Cangyang Gyatso looked back at his hometown, where there were girls he liked, his family, but it was probably all over.
On the way to Lhasa, Cangyang Gyatso worshipped the 5th Panchen Lama as his teacher in Langkazi County, and was also officially ordained, and Cangyang Gyatso was his Dharma name.
Later, when Cangyang Gyatso ascended the Potala Palace, officially sat on the bed, and became the sixth Dalai Lama, Cangyang Gyatso's heart was like ashes.
Although this is a position that the world envies, Cangyang Gyatso does not want such a life, because the Yellow Sect where Cangyang Gyatso belongs requires lamas to abandon their love, and since then they have been in the dust.
And here Changyang Gyatso is a puppet without any freedom and real power, not only to be forced to learn countless scriptures Xi, but also to be controlled by the Tibetan king Sangyel Gyatso.
At that time, although Cangyang Gyatso was the sixth Dalai Lama and should have all the power, he was young and had just been welcomed back, and the real power at that time was all in the hands of the Tibetan king Sangyel Gyatso.
All this made Cangyang Gyatso extremely tired, he didn't want to learn the scriptures at all, he felt that he was a puppet, and it was useless to learn it.
The most important thing is that Cangyang Gyatso misses Maggie Ami very much, but fortunately, before leaving home, Maggie Ami once told Cangyang Gyatso that she would also follow her family to Lhasa soon, which also became his belief at that time.
Cangyang Gyatso, who was in Lhasa, counted the time every day, and when Maggie Ami arrived in Lhasa, Cangyang Gyatso secretly escaped from the Potala Palace one night.
On that day, it was snowing heavily in Lhasa, but the ice and snow did not stop the monks from running to their lovers.
Cangyang Gyatso has been preparing for this day for a long time, he wears layman clothes, wears wigs, and even wears rings and other accessories, which make the already handsome Cangyang Gyatso more like a merry boy.
In order to hide his identity, Cangyang Gyatso also gave himself a layman's name, named Yansang Wangbo.
Maggie Ami's family lives on Barkhor Street, so a pair of lovers who miss each other start a private meeting in a small building.
Although with the identity of Cangyang Gyatso, there may not be a way to marry Maggie Ami in the future, but the two people who fall in love feel that as long as they are still together, nothing matters.
In this way, during the day, Cangyang Gyatso sat in the Potala Palace and was the biggest king in the snowy region.
At night, Cangyang Gyatso changed his appearance and secretly came to the streets of Lhasa to live an ordinary life with his lover.
However, this life was soon shattered, and one morning Changyang Gyatso's attendants found footprints in the snow.
The attendant originally thought that Cangyang Gyatso had left footprints in the courtyard in the morning, but upon closer inspection, he found that the footprints stretched from Cangyang Gyatso's bedroom to the bottom of the mountain.
This means that Cangyang Gyatso has secretly descended the mountain!
The attendant then informed Sangyel Gyatso of the news, and Sangyel Gyatso immediately sent someone to investigate, only to find that Cangyang Gyatso's footsteps had reached the door of a tavern in Lhasa.
After inquiring about the people sent by Sangyel Gyatso, they learned that the tavern's frequent customer, Am Sang Wangbo, often came to the tavern at night, and that there was a young girl who came with him, and the two seemed to be husband and wife, and they were very affectionate.
Knowing this, Sangyel Gyatso immediately went to question Cangyang Gyatso, but Cangyang Gyatso refused to admit anything.
Not only that, Cangyang Gyatso also told Sangyel Gyatso that he didn't want to be a puppet anymore, he was like an ordinary person, and he hoped that he could be exempted from ordination and become an ordinary person.
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, so they had to persuade Cangyang Gyatso to let go of this thought, and see that everyone no longer asked about themselves and Maggie Ami, and Cangyang Gyatso stopped making trouble.
But Cangyang Gyatso didn't expect that Sangyel Gyatso and they would not let go of Maggie Ami.
Sangyel Gyatso had already secretly found out Maji Ami, and forced Maji Ami's family to leave Lhasa, and punished Maji Ami severely.
The next time Cangyang Gyatso came down the mountain, he learned the truth, and Cangyang Gyatso finally realized how incompetent he was, and he couldn't even protect his lover.
The heartbroken Cangyang Gyatso became so sad that he had no way to escape from it all, and there was no way to protect his lover, so he could only let loose his bones.
Later, Cangyang Gyatso no longer went down the mountain in hiding, but began to descend the mountain openly, and had another lover, who lived with them at the bottom of the mountain.
Especially a girl named Renzhen Wangmu, this girl looks too much like Maggie Ami, and she is also the lover who has been with Cangyang Gyatso for the longest time.
Cangyang Gyatso's other lover was Dawa Dolma, but not long after, Dawa Dolma also disappeared, which should still be done by Sangyel Gyatso.
Later, Cangyang Gyatso also inquired that Dawa Zhuoma returned to his hometown to get married and have children, and when Cangyang Gyatso heard about it, he smiled instead, it was good, Dawa Zhuoma was relieved.
Cangyang Gyatso began to write poems when Maji Ami was driven away, and he also had people build a small building called Longwang Pond in the back lake of the Potala Palace.
Here, Changyang Gyatso brings his worldly friends to have fun, and Rinchen Wangmu is one of them.
The indulgent Cangyang Gyatso made Sangyel Gyatso useless, he couldn't really lock up Cangyang Gyatso, so he had to let him go, as long as he was willing to be his puppet.
The mysterious reincarnated spirit child
So what happened next? Why did Cangyang Gyatso die at such a young age, and how did he come to be chosen as a spirit child? Let's read on.
It all started with the death of the Fifth Dalai Lama.
At that time, the Fifth Dalai Lama had obviously passed away, but the disciple of the Fifth Dalai Lama, that is, the Tibetan king at that time, Sangyel Gyatso, in order to continue to hold power, concealed the news of the death of the Fifth Dalai Lama.
However, Sangyel Gyatso also knew that paper could not contain the fire after all, so just in case, Sangyel Gyatso concealed the news while sending his cronies to find the reincarnated spirit child of the Fifth Dalai Lama.
That's right, the reincarnated spirit boy is also a child, what can he do, even if he can't hide it in the future, with this spirit boy as a puppet, the power is still in the hands of Sangjie Gyatso.
At that time, how did they find the spirit child? The rule of the Huang Sect at that time was that the babies should be allowed to grasp things in the same way as they were grasping Zhou, and whoever caught the relics of the Fifth Dalai Lama would be the reincarnated spirit child.
The person who grabbed the relic happened to be Cangyang Gyatso, but after finding the spirit child, Sangyel Gyatso did not immediately take Cangyang Gyatso back, but just sent someone to silently monitor Cangyang Gyatso.
It wasn't until three years later, in order to prepare for himself, that Sangyel Gyatso informed his parents that their son was a reincarnated spirit child.
So Cangyang Gyatso began to go to the monasteries often to learn Xi Dharma, and he was really very smart and learned everything very quickly.
Cangyang Gyatso wanted to become a real spirit boy and was welcomed back after the death of the Fifth Dalai Lama was exposed, and the matter was known to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, 14 years had passed since the death of the Fifth Dalai Lama, and Sangyel Gyatso was guilty of bullying the king! He was too bold!
At that time, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was Emperor Kangxi, and Emperor Kangxi, who learned of this, was very angry, and he immediately issued a severe reprimand for Sangyel Gyatso.
After receiving the decree, Sangyel Gyatso immediately wrote to the imperial court, admitting his mistake and saying that he had already found the reincarnated spirit child, and that the reincarnated spirit child was already Xi the scriptures.
Tibet is too far away from the capital, and Emperor Kangxi also knew that Sangyel Gyatso held the real power in Tibet, so he still couldn't pursue the matter too much, so as not to cause a bigger turmoil.
So Emperor Kangxi ordered Sangyel Gyatso to immediately welcome back the reincarnated spirit child, and in this way, there was the previous story.
If Cangyang Gyatso can be a puppet of indulgence and sensuality for the rest of his life, and write countless poems, it can be regarded as his life happily spent in his own way.
But why did Cangyang Gyatso die at the age of twenty-three?
The young lama passed away
There is such a theory about the death of Changyang Gyatso.
At that time, the power was in the hands of Sangyel Gyatso, and as long as Sangyel Gyatso still used the puppet of Cangyang Gyatso, Cangyang Gyatso would not have died so early.
But not long after Cangyang Gyatso reigned, Sangyel Gyatso had an accident.
At that time, in order to consolidate the power of the Yellow Sect in Tibet, the Tibetan region ascended to a high position, so the Yellow Sect united with the Mongolian Heshute Department, and the Yellow Sect became the ruler of Tibet from then on.
Originally, it was to use the other party's ability to help them achieve their goals, but they didn't expect that the Heshuo Special Department also had their own goals, and they sent troops to help the Yellow Sect ascend to the position of ruler, but they did not withdraw their troops for a long time.
When the rulers of the Yellow Sect realized it, because the force of the Heshute Department was stronger at that time, they could not drive people out, so they had to let them stay in their own territory.
When Sangyel Gyatso was in power, Sangyel Gyatso was unwilling to tolerate the Heshute tribe anymore, and the power of the Yellow Sect was greater than before, so Sangyel Gyatso began to try his best to get rid of the Khan king Razang Khan of the Heshute tribe.
In the end, Sangyel Gyatso used the method of poisoning, which was the most vicious and despicable.
Razang Khan was no ordinary person either, and soon noticed the incident and became furious.
Razang Khan, who had long been disgusted with Sangyel Gyatso, immediately launched a war, in which Sangyel Gyatso was killed.
After Sangyel Gyatso was killed, Razang Khan also took the initiative to write to Emperor Kangxi, saying that Sangyel Gyatso had been killed by himself after rebelling, and that the current sixth Dalai Lama, Cangyang Gyatso, was actually a "flower monk".
After that, Razang Khan exposed all the truth to the Kangxi Emperor, and when the Kangxi Emperor knew about it, he immediately ordered Cangyang Gyatso to be escorted to the capital and interrogated himself.
In this way, Cangyang Gyatso was escorted to the capital, but the capital was too far away from Lhasa, and it was not as good as it is now, so the transportation was very inconvenient.
When Cangyang Gyatso and his party walked to Qinghai, Cangyang Gyatso suddenly proposed that he wanted to meditate and recite sutras, and the people who escorted him were not easy to stop, so he left it to him.
But I didn't expect that Cangyang Gyatso would lose his breath as soon as he sat down, and the sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet passed away in this way.
Cangyang Gyatso's life ended completely, he walked out of Tibet, but he failed to reach the capital.
The death of Cangyang Gyatso remains an unsolved mystery, and no one knows what the real cause of Changyang Gyatso's death was, whether it was suicide, homicide, or natural death.
At that time, there were several theories, the first of which was that Cangyang Gyatso could not stand the travel and died of illness.
Some people also say that Cangyang Gyatso was also killed by Razang Khan, and Lazang Khan felt that Emperor Kangxi would not punish Cangyang Gyatso, so he simply did it himself.
It is also said that Cangyang Gyatso was imprisoned by Emperor Kangxi.
But what intrigues people the most is another version of the ending.
It was written by a Mongolian lama who said that when Cangyang Gyatso was reprimanded by Emperor Kangxi and was escorted to the capital, everyone was worried that Cangyang Gyatso would be killed, so the kind officials let Cangyang Gyatso go.
In the books of the Mongolian lamas, the later Cangyang Gyatso did not return to Tibet, but went to the southeast, went to Nepal, Gansu, Wutai Mountain and other places, preached the scriptures everywhere, and later came to Mongolia, where he lived until he was 64 years old before his death.
Of course, these are just rumors, and none of us know the true outcome of Cangyang Gyatso.