The 29-Article Ordinance for the More Effective Governing of Tibet (Chinese: 欽定藏內善後章程二十九條[1]), also called twenty-nine-article Imperial Ordinance,[2][3] was an imperial decree concerning the governance of Tibet that was supposedly issued by the Qianlong Emperor of China's Qing dynasty in 1793.
[4][5] Article 1 stated that the purpose of the Golden Urn was to ensure the prosperity of Gelug, and to eliminate cheating and corruption in the selection process.
The corresponding text in Chinese was not listed as 29 articles, but parts and parcels of it were seen in various memorials to the throne and decrees.
In it he described how the Golden Urn system was invented and said it would be a more fair mechanism of selecting the Dalai Lama than choosing reincarnated lamas based on private designation, or based on one person's decision.
It is also used to eliminate greedy families with multiple reincarnated rinpoches and lamas.