The great stupa north-east of Kathmandu on the old road to Tibet.
Wikipedia's Boudhanath page gives the Newar chronicles' foundations (a stupa of the Licchavi king Vrishadeva about 400, or of Manadeva about 464-505) and an inscription that ties King Shivadeva (about 590-604) to the place, and says the present structure was most likely built in the fourteenth century. It adds that the teacher Shakya Zangpo, undated, reportedly found only an abandoned mound and restored it, and that this probably gave the stupa its present size. So on 1 January 1200 an older stupa or mound stands here; its condition is not recorded; and the Tibetan quarter that grows round it after 1959 does not exist.
Who holds it
- Name
- No custodian is named for 1200
- Title
- Not known
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The Boudhanath page is silent on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Patron
The valley kings and the Newar guthi in the earlier ages.
Places of note
- Boudhanath stupa: The stupa.
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board does not list Boudhanath. It is added because the brief names it.
Evidence: Wikipedia's page, which mixes legend and chronicle.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A point.
Primary sources for Nepal valley
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- The Gopala Raja Chronicle, and the Nepalese colophons, Anonymous (chronicle); various scribes (colophons) (the chronicle about 1389; the colophons are contemporary notes of the 11th to 14th centuries). The Nepal valley in 1200 is known chiefly from dated manuscript colophons and short inscriptions, which name the reigning king with the Nepal era year, and from the Gopalarajavamsavali, a chronicle written about 1389 that lists the kings with regnal years.
- History of Buddhism in India and Tibet, Buton Rinchen Drub (Bu ston Rin chen grub) (1322). Optional background. Read online
- The Blue Annals, Go Lotsawa Zhonnu Pal ('Gos lo tsa ba gZhon nu dpal) (1476 to 1478). The fullest Tibetan account of who mattered around 1200, written three centuries later from earlier biographies and lineage records, many now lost. Read online
- The Sakya genealogy, and the works of the Sakya hierarch of 1200, Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen (Grags pa rgyal mtshan) and Sakya Pandita; the genealogy by Ngawang Kunga Sonam (the hierarchs' writings about 1170 to 1250; the genealogy 1629). Sakya in 1200 was ruled by Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen, the third of the five founders, with his nephew Kunga Gyaltsen (later Sakya Pandita, born 1182) under his teaching. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.