Gyelthang

Gyelthang was a Tibetan chiefdom on the high plateau of northwestern Yunnan. In 1293 the Yuan placed it under the Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs.

The Naxi Mu chiefs of Lijiang later ruled Gyelthang. Khoshut Mongol armies conquered it in 1667, and the Fifth Dalai Lama founded Ganden Sumtseling monastery in 1679. The Qing placed the district under Lijiang Prefecture in 1726 and established Zhongdian sub-prefecture there in 1756.