Complex sentence: Ma Bufang did not want the 14th Dalai Lama to succeed his predecessor, and did all he could to delay the transport of the Dalai Lama from Qinghai to Tibet, by demanding massive sums of money in silver.
Split into simpler sentences: Ma Bufang did not want the 14th Dalai Lama to succeed his predecessor. He did all he could to delay the transport of the Dalai Lama from Qinghai to Tibet, by demanding massive sums of money in silver.