Tseten (d. 1676?) was a
Choros-Oirat prince, and the eldest son of
Erdeni Batur, the ruler of the
Dzungar Khanate
The Dzungar Khanate, also written as the Zunghar Khanate, was an Inner Asian khanate of Oirat Mongol origin. At its greatest extent, it covered an area from southern Siberia in the north to present-day Kyrgyzstan in the south, and fro ...
(now part of Western China) from 1634, until his death in 1653.
Fratricide
Tseten is best known for murdering his younger half-brother
Sengge, who bypassed him in the line of succession to become the ruler of the Dzungar Khanate.
History of Kalmykia
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