However, the early Ming government enacted a law, later rescinded, which forbade Han Chinese to learn the tenets of Tibetan Buddhism. There is little detailed evidence of Chineseespecially lay Chinesestudying Tibetan Buddhism until the Republican era (19121949). Despite these missions on behalf of the Hongwu Emperor, Morris Rossabi writes that the Yongle Emperor (r. 14021424) "was the first Ming ruler actively to seek an extension of relations with Tibet."
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): Who worked towards obtaining a extension of relations with Tibet?
the Yongle Emperor