Galdan Tseren (Mongolian: Галданцэрэн; Chinese: 噶爾丹策零; 1693–1745) was a Choros (Oirats) prince and the Khong Tayiji of the Dzungar Khanate from 1727 until his death in 1745.
After the assassination of his father by rival factions, a civil war followed between his sons of which Galdan Tseren emerged victorious and crowned himself the new Dzungar Khan.
He refused to surrender Lubsan Danjin, the leader of the revolt of the Kokonor (Qinghai) Khoshuts of 1723, and he initiated a policy of harassment of the Khalkha Mongols,[1] the Manchu's allies.
[6] But the base of Galdan Tseren's finances lay in the profits gained from his control of the trade route between Russia and Qing dynasty,[5] the well known Tea Road, along which valuable Chinese products flowed to Moscow.
Galdan Tseren died in 1745, the Dzungar Khanate that he had strengthened would fall prey to a succession dispute among his three sons, and would later be defeated and subject to genocide by the Qing Qianlong Emperor.