Litang

Litang was a Khampa chiefdom on the high grasslands of the Shaluli Mountains. The Yuan established a district office there in 1272.

The Third Dalai Lama converted Litang's Bön monastery to the Gelug order in 1580. Litang later passed to the Khoshut Mongols; in 1719 local chiefs submitted their registers to the Qing, who confirmed the principal and vice pacification commissions in 1729. The Seventh Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso, was born there in 1708.