Khalka

For example, we say and even write khalka rje btsun dam pa for halha rje btsun dam pa.

1642-55) had not moved into Qinghai in 1636 and destroyed the Khalka Tsogtu Khan--the enemy of the Dge lugs pa School--at the Battle of Olango (Bloody Hill) in the Qinghai Lake region in spring 1637, the Dge lugs pa School's influence over the Tibetan Buddhist world would undoubtedly be different today.

He notes that chronic disputes between the Zunghar and Khalka Mongols, and among the Zunghars themselves, prevented their unified action against the Qing.

Why is it that we take an agnostic approach to the broader genetic relationships (Altaic, Uralic, even Ugric), yet build our analysis on groupings like Finnic, Samoyedic and Mongolic, rather than individual languages such as Finnish, Nenets and Khalka? The reason is that similarities within the subgroups listed are so overwhelming that, to our best knowledge, no serious controversy has arisen on whether a given language belongs or does not belong to the subgroup.

No matter how isolated they may have been within the empire, however, they were part of a greater religious, cultural, and ethnic |family' beyond - the Lamaist Buddhist religious family - which stretched from the Transbaikal through Khalka, or Outer Mongolia, to Inner Mongolia, to Tibet.