Thanks for the information and pictures of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama. Just to add some background to the Emperor Shunzhi, here is what I found on wikipedia. What i found of particular interest was that Emperor Shunzhi apparently became a monk. Was that due to any influence from the Great Fifth? Also, after Emperor Shunzhi passed on, his son who succeeded him became Emperor Kang Xi who is also said to be an incarnation of Dorje Shugden.
From Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor)
The Shunzhi Emperor (Chinese: pinyin: Shùnzhìdì; Manchu: ijish?n dasan h?wangdi; Mongolian: Eyebeer Zasagch Khaan; 15 March 1638 – 5 February 1661) was the third emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and the first Qing emperor to rule over China, which he did from 1644 to 1661. "Shunzhi" was the name of his reign period. His personal name was Fulin (of the Aisin Gioro clan) and his temple name (chosen after he died) was Shizu.
A committee of Manchu princes chose the young Fulin to succeed his father Hung Taiji in September 1643 when he was only five. Two co-regents were also appointed: Nurhaci's fourteenth son Dorgon, and Nurhaci's nephew Jirgalang. From 1643 until Dorgon's death on the last day of 1650, political power lay mostly in the hands of Dorgon. After the young emperor started to rule personally in 1651, he tried, with mixed success, to fight corruption and to reduce the political influence of the Manchu nobility. He died of smallpox, a lethal disease that was endemic in China, but against which the Manchus had no immunity. He was succeeded by his third son Xuanye, who had already survived smallpox, and who subsequently reigned for sixty years as the Kangxi emperor.
Under the leadership of Dorgon and the Shunzhi emperor, the Qing dynasty conquered most of the territory of the fallen Ming and its last claimants and established the basis of Qing rule over China despite highly unpopular policies like the "haircutting command" of 1645, which forced Qing subjects to shave their forehead and braid their remaining hair into a queue. Because the Shunzhi reign is not well documented, it constitutes a relatively little-known period of Qing history.
In 1661, Shunzhi's favourite concubine Donggo suddenly died as a result of grief over the loss of a child. Overwhelmed with grief himself, Shunzhi contracted smallpox and died shortly thereafter. It was also believed by some that the young emperor did not pass away but left the palace to become a monk. Information is not clear, but it is said that Shunzhi later became a monk. Although not officially stated in history, it is said he later died of smallpox.
Before he died, he appointed four regents to govern for his child son, Xuanye - Oboi, Sonin, Suksaha, and Ebilun.
