A high plain on the upper Arun north of Everest where the road from Kuti meets the road along the Tsangpo trough.
The Indian teacher Padampa Sangye (died about 1117, on the Wikipedia date for his death) taught here for many years and is said to have founded a monastery in the valley; Wikipedia's Tingri County page names Dingri Langkor as his foundation and gives no date. Machig Labdron (1055-1149) studied under him there, and the Lamdre master Zhangton Chobar was born in the county in 1053. His 'Hundred Verses to the People of Tingri' is the best-known text tied to the place.
The county's later dzong, Shelkar, is of the time of the Lhasa government and is not standing in 1200 (and the Shelkar seat is on the sheet to the east). No political holder is named for 1200.
Who holds it
- Name
- Not known by name for 1200
- Title
- Lords and hierarchs of Dingri
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Wikipedia's Tingri County page names no political holder for the twelfth or thirteenth century.
What the town holds
- the plain and the Langkor monastery
- the junction of the Kuti and Kyirong roads with the road east
How things stand that morning
No event is dated.
Wealth
Pasture and barley on the plain; the caravan and pilgrim traffic.
Military
No army is recorded and no number is known.
Council
The monastery and local lords; none named.
Communities
Tibetan farmers and herders; the monastery's monks and lay teachers.
Trade and crafts
Caravan lodging and herding.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Wikipedia's Tingri County and Padampa Sangye pages; the political holder is unrecoverable.
On the map: The plain is large; the near land is a guess.
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.