Kongpo is the forested valley country east of Lhoka and Dagpo, where the Nyang river meets the Tsangpo near Bayi and the Tsangpo turns south through the great gorge.
It is a country of Bon and Buddhist sanctuaries (the sacred Bon mountain Bonri is in Kongpo, recalled) and of Tibetan and Lhoba villagers. The brief's assignment lists it neither for the central Tibet sheet nor for the Kham sheet, so we give it a thin province and flag the gap: no house, lord or war is named for 1200.
Who holds it
- Title
- Headmen or lords of Kongpo
- Since
- not pinned
- Confidence
- low
No holder is named by any source we opened.
What it holds
- Valley farms and forests; no owner known
Allies and rivals
Dagpo on the west; Pome and Zayul (not covered) on the east.
How things stand that morning
A sparsely documented valley country with no lord named.
Wealth
No source we could open gives figures; the usual base is estates and serfs, herds, pass tolls, trade in salt, wool, tea and barley, and the gifts of patrons.
Military
No standing army; the house or lord calls on retainers, tenants and kin. No troop numbers are given by any source we could open.
Customs
Tibetan Buddhist, with Bon communities and village cults; barley, peas and butter farmers in the valleys and herders on the heights; the people on a house's or lord's estate are bound to it as serfs (mi ser). Disputes go to the lord or the lama of the nearest great house; no code or court of 1200 is described by any source we could open.
Assemblies
not described for 1200; the monks of the great houses meet as an assembly (tshogs) and the village headmen settle local matters, but no source we could open records either.
Tribute
none known; the people owe labour, grain and butter to their lord or house, but no figure or rate is given by any source we could open.
Where the sources disagree
- The Kham sheet (tie) anchors Nyingchi (Bayi), Mainling and Gongbo'gyamda as `tibet`; this record and our anchors for the same places say `peoples`. It is a label choice and not a finding: no source we opened names a lord of Kongpo or places it under a house of U. To make it `tibet`, change this record's realm and those three anchors together. Ruling of the finishing pass: `peoples` stands for Kongpo and for the south-east corner beyond it (Pome or Bomi, Medog, Zayul or Chayu); on this sheet the Kham sheet's anchors at Nyingchi, Mainling, Gongbo'gyamda, Bomi, Medog and Zayul are set to `peoples` by extra anchors in the config. Why: no source names a lord, a house or a monastery of a Tibetan house there for 1199-1200, and on this map `tibet` is the colour of ground that houses and monasteries are named as holding; the smaller claim is the safer one. If the campaign wants Kongpo as `tibet`, it is one change of the realm of this record plus the extra anchors.
Evidence: Recollection and geography only. Treasury of Lives, the Blue Annals, the Red Annals, Petech, Sorensen and Hazod and Davidson could not be opened in this session (treasuryoflives.org and rigpawiki.org refused the fetch; the archive.org full texts were refused or cut off), so facts marked 'recalled' are from memory of those works and unchecked.
On the map: Modern-unit polygon. The east of this province (Pome, Zayul) is not covered by the assignments.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.