The house of the Indian teacher Padampa Sangye (Pha dam pa sangs rgyas, died about 1117), whose teaching of Zhije, the Pacification of Suffering, and the Chod lineages that come from his pupil Machig Labdron (1055-1149), who studied under him at Tingri Langkhor, are the best-known things in the valley.
His 'Hundred Verses' were addressed to the people of Tingri. The page does not date the founding of the monastery. By 1200 the founder is more than eighty years dead and the house is a centre of his lineage; who holds it is not recorded.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not named for 1200
- Title
- The abbot of Dingri Langkor
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Wikipedia's Padampa Sangye and Tingri County pages give no abbot and no date for the monastery.
How things stand that morning
Standing in some form.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Patron
Local lords; none named.
Places of note
- Dingri: The plain.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Two Wikipedia pages; no dated record for 1200.
On the map: A point.
Primary sources for Tibet (centre)
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.
- 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 collected works of Lama Zhang, and the early Kagyu lives, Lama Zhang (Zhang Yudrakpa Tsondru Drakpa) and his disciples; the biographers of Drigung, Taklung and Phagmodru (the 1160s to the early 13th century). The nearest contemporary witnesses to the lords of central Tibet in 1200. 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
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Indo-Tibetica (the temples and inscriptions of western Tibet), with the Royal Genealogy of Ngari, Giuseppe Tucci (editor and translator); the genealogy by Ngawang Drakpa (Ngag dbang grags pa) (the inscriptions and temple records of the 11th to 15th centuries; Indo-Tibetica published 1932 to 1941; the genealogy about 1497). Guge, Purang and Ladakh in 1200 are among the least documented kingdoms in the atlas. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.