 In 1640 Manuel Marques led an expedition back in an attempt to reestablish the mission but he was captured and the rest of his party fled.He wrote a pitiful letter to the Jesuit headquarters at Agra in India begging to be rescued, but was never heard from again.In 1679–80 Tsaparang and the Guge kingdom was conquered by the Central Tibetan government in Lhasa under the leadership of the 5th Dalai Lama.