Minyag

Minyag, also known as Chakla or Mingzheng, was a chiefdom centered on Dartsedo, a trading town between Kham and China proper. A chiefdom had grown there by the late thirteenth century.

In 1407 the Ming invested its chief Awang Jiancan as a commissioner. Dartsedo prospered on the Tibetan-Sichuan tea and horse trade, but Lhasa's levies provoked resistance. After a rebellion in 1666, Lhasa invaded and its tax commissioner murdered the king in 1699. Qing troops killed the commissioner the next year; in 1725 Chakla entered the Qing tusi system.