Yeshe Gyatso was a pretending 6th Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...

 of Tibet

Tibet

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Yeshe Gyatso was presented as the real 6th Dalai Lama in 1706 by Lha-bzang Khan

Lha-bzang Khan

Lha-bzang Khan was chief of the Khoshut tribe of the Oirat Mongols and the son of Dalai Khan and grandson of Güshi Khan and the last Khoshut-Oirat King of Tibet. He became Khan by poisoning his brother Vangjal . Since Güshi's time, the Khoshuts had lost real power in Lhasa to the Regent there...

, after the real 6th Dalai Lama (Lobsang Gyatso) died during his travel to Beijing

Beijing

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 and his Dalai Lamaship was contested by Lha-bzang Khan. According to some sources, Yeshe Gyatso was the son of Lha-bzang. Lha-bzang proclaimed to the Tibetan people that Lobsang Gyatso had been initiated wrongly as the 6th Dalai Lama. The Chinese Qing emperor

Qing Dynasty

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 Kangxi

Kangxi Emperor

The Kangxi Emperor ; Manchu: elhe taifin hūwangdi ; Mongolian: Энх-Амгалан хаан, 4 May 1654 –20 December 1722) was the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Pass and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1661 to 1722.Kangxi's...

 recognized Yeshe at first and dunned the Tibetan people to recognize him and obey Lha-bzang Khan.

Shortly later, Tibetans in Eastern Tibet announced they had found the reincarnation, or 7th Dalai Lama near Lithang in the province of Kham

Kham

Kham , is a historical region covering a land area largely divided between present-day Tibetan Autonomous Region and Sichuan province, with smaller portions located within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan provinces of China. During the Republic of China's rule over mainland China , most of the region was...

, who was to be called Kelzang Gyatso. He was recognized by the Buddhist clergy and, after several unrests, in 1710 by emperor Kangxi as well.