In early times, the Dörbets and the Öold were overruled by collateral branches of the Choros lineage.

The Dörbets are distributed among the western provinces of Mongolia, Kalmykia and in a small portion in Heilongjiang, China.

The next year Dalai Taishi's son Solom Tseren joined the Kalmyks on the Volga with 4,000 households.

Trapped west of the Volga, the Do'rbets could not join the 1771 flight of the Torguds, and hence dominated the remaining Kalmyks.

In 1753 during a worsening civil war amongst the Oirat, three Dörbet leaders submitted to the Qing dynasty.