A small Newar town on the south-western rim with a cluster of shrines: the Asura Cave and the Yangleshö cave, which Tibetan Buddhists revere as places where Padmasambhava meditated (tradition); a Vajrayogini temple, one of the main Newar Buddhist Vajrayogini temples, said to have been founded by the Pamtingpa brothers, disciples of Naropa and Maitripada (tradition), whose present building probably dates from the seventeenth century; the Shesha Narayan ponds, one of four Narayana shrines the page ties to the Licchavi king Vishnugupta (belief); and the Dakshinkali temple of Kali about a kilometre away.
It stands above the southern approach road, so pilgrims and traffic reach it in the same order. The Tibetan monasteries and retreat centres of Pharping are modern.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not named for 1200
- Title
- The priests of the Pharping shrines
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Wikipedia's Pharping page is thin and marks several claims as unsourced.
How things stand that morning
Open; no event is dated.
Wealth
Offerings.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Places of note
- Vajrayogini temple, Pharping: On the hillside.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: One thin Wikipedia page; the Pamtingpa tradition places the temple's first form in the eleventh century or after.
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.