The gazetteer's Lhari is the seat of Lhari (Jiali) County in the headwaters of the Salween, north of Kongpo, at 30.74 N, 93.34 E.
The brief groups 'Lhari' with Phagmodru, Yerpa and Nyethang among the places of Ü, which suggests a different Lhari (a hermitage or mountain of the Phagmo Drupa circle); we could not tell which it means, and no page we opened mentions either. We give the gazetteer's place as the only fixed point: a valley of herders on the road between the Nagchu country and Kongpo, with no known lord. The nomads and valley farmers there are drawn as a people.
Who holds it
- Title
- Chief or headman of the Lhari valley
- Since
- not pinned
- Confidence
- low
No source we could open names the holder for the winter of 1199-1200.
Overlord
none: no one rules Tibet in 1200; the house answers to its own patrons and to the custom of the valleys
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.
Council
none known; the place is governed by its lord or house, and no source we could open names a headman or judge
Communities
Tibetan; no other community is attested here
Fairs and markets
none known; pilgrims and caravans meet at the feasts of the temples, but no fair is dated
Walls and castle
none known; the dzong (fort) as an institution of the district lord belongs to the fourteenth century
Trade and crafts
not described by any source we could open
Where the sources disagree
- The brief's 'Lhari' (among Ü places with Phagmodru and Yerpa) may be a different place from the gazetteer's Lhari County seat; flagged, not resolved.
Evidence: Gazetteer only. The identification with the brief's Lhari is uncertain. 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.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.