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... His cousin Kelzang Nyendak (skal bzang snyan grags), the son of his father's younger brother Namgyel Wangchuk (rnam rgyal dbang phyug, d.1910/1912) was invested as the sixteenth head of the Lhagyari family. ...

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Kelzang Nyendrak's father, Namgyel Wangchuk (rnam rgyal dbang phyug, d.1912), had fought as a general, a Dapon (mda' dpon), against the Qing occupation of Lhasa in 1910-1912 and died in battle ...

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... This custom seems to have changed in the early 1920s, beginning with Namgyel Gyatso's grandfather Lhagyari Namgyel Wangchuk (rnam rgyal dbang phyug, d.1912) who fought as a general during the 1910-1912 Qing occupation of Lhasa. ...

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