kashag Sentences

The fifth Dalai Lama reformed the Kashag to include four secular office holders.

During the 1920s, Tibet was governed by the Kashag council comprising the regents, the three ongs and the Secretary of Tibetan Internal Affairs.

The ministers of the Kashag were responsible for drafting and implementing the policies of the Tibetan government.

Kashag was the highest level of government in Tibet, the supreme administrative and executive authority.

The four ongs of the Kashag were the representatives of the Gelug monasteries in the central government.

Any major decisions made by each of the four ongs of the Kashag needed to be discussed and agreed by the other members before implementation.

The Kashag council made several attempts to modernize Tibet through legal and administrative reforms.

The mode of life of the people of Tibet was totally changed by the Kashag system introduced by the reform.

The role of the Kashag was to maintain the stability of the government and strengthen close relations with foreign states.

After the tragic events of 1959, and the arrival of the 14th Dalai Lama in India, the former structure of the Kashag was no longer needed.

During the reign of the 13th Dalai Lama, the Kashag took the initiative in implementing a number of reforms and in modernizing the military and systems.

The central government of the Kashag was almost constantly under attack by radicals and the conservative element.

Following the 1951 agreement, the traditional hierarchy of the Kashag was dissolved as the central government of Tibet was absorbed into that of the People’s Republic of China.

In 1838, after much deliberation, the 5th Dalai Lama established the Kashag system, which remained in place until the 20th century and the establishment of the Chinese rule over Tibet.

The fourth ong of the Kashag, Sangye Namgyal, along with his cousin Sangye Dorje, established printing presses in Tibet in the early 18th century with the help of skilled craftsmen brought from Nepal.

In the period of the fifth and sixth Dala.lamas, the institution of the Kashag witnessed a series of significant reforms and modernization measures.

The refashioning of the Kashag council into a Mixed Tibet Committee by the Chinese government after 1951, drastically diminished the traditional authority of the council and the role of the exiled 14th Dalai Lama in the governance of Tibet.

After the dissolution of the traditional Kashag system, the 14th Dalai Lama struggled to preserve the cultural and religious heritage of Tibet while under Chinese rule.