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Kunga Lekpa

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140:. Finally, in 1480, Donyo Dorje invaded the Ü region and captured some districts which had hitherto been under Phagmodrupa's control. He also forced the deputy Konchok Rinchen from power. A renewed attack in the next year was unsuccessful, but by now Kunga Lekpa had lost much of his allegiance among the Tibetan elite. The ministers of the kingdom met in the same year 1481 in Nêdong to discuss the conflict between the 106:
would have "ordered" his son Gongge Liesiba Zhongnai Lingzhan Jianzan Baer Cangbu (Kunga Lekpa Jungne Rinchen Gyaltsen Pal Zangpo) to accede to the throne. The historiographical discrepancy is not easily explained, and seems to point to the limited Chinese insights in Tibetan affairs. At any rate the
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Kunga Lekpa made a tour in Tsang, where his Rinpungpa kinsman Norzang received him in state. However, the king felt dissatisfied with the treatment accorded him. He was married to the Rinpungpa lady Chopel Zangmo, his cousin, but the marriage was unhappy, and caused serious political repercussions.
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or Chinese dynastic annals the succession is given differently than in the Tibetan chronicles. They assert that the father Sangerjie Jianzan Ba Cangbu (Sangye Gyaltsen Pal Zangpo) succeeded Drakpa Jungne, and ruled in his own name until 1469. After the latter's death the
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faction and the Rinpungpa. In the end Kunga Lekpa was deposed and received an estate as compensation. The throne went to his nephew Ngagi Wangpo. Two years after this, the old ruler died. He had a son called Rinchen Dorje (1458?-1476?) who became abbot of
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region (West Central Tibet). When Drakpa Jungne died in 1445, there was a three-year interregnum. The young Kunga Lekpa was elevated to abbot of the
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in 1467, but died at a young age. He is sometimes listed as ruler after Kunga Lekpa, which appears to be incorrect.
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His father Sangye Gyaltsen was still alive, and resided in the Tsethang monastery. He only died in 1457. But in the
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The date of Ngagi Wangpo's accession is sometimes given as 1454; see Dang-dkar blo-bzang 'phrim-las,
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Kunga Lekpa was a son of Sangye Gyaltsen, a brother of the last effective ruler of the dynasty,
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1881, p. 242. The list is taken over by some later works, such as A.M.H.J. Stokvis,
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Manuel d'histoire, de généalogie et de chronologie de tous l'états du globe,
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monks razed the new establishment and almost killed the Karmapa lama
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To this was added religiously tainted disputes. Norzang's grandson
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monastery in 1446, and was eventually enthroned as king (
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Index

Tibetan
Wylie
central Tibet
Phagmodrupa Dynasty
Gongma Drakpa Gyaltsen
Rinpungpa
Drakpa Jungne
Norzang
Tsang
Tsethang
Nêdong
Ü
Mingshi
Chenghua Emperor
Donyo Dorje
Karmapa
Lhasa
Gelugpa
Chödrak Gyatso
Tsethang
History of Tibet
Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming dynasty
Kagyu
Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa
Giuseppe Tucci
Giuseppe Tucci
Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa
Sarat Chandra Das
Drakpa Jungne
Ruler of Tibet

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