Khagya

Khagya denotes an Amdo Tibetan herding tribe on the Tao River grasslands of present-day southern Gansu, around Amchok in present-day Xiahe and the Kajia country of present-day Hezuo. In Ming and Qing times the tribe stood within the Taozhou Guard frontier under native tusi, and Gelugpa influence grew around it after Labrang Monastery was founded nearby in 1709.