Purang

Purang was a Himalayan kingdom centred on Purang in western Tibet, south of Mount Kailash. Separate from Guge since 1072, it maintained close ties with Yatse to the south and accepted Mongol-Yuan overlordship.

The Purang-Yatse polity collapsed towards the end of the fourteenth century and was absorbed by Guge. Ladakh conquered Guge in 1630, bringing Purang under its rule, until a Ganden Podrang army retook Ngari in the 1680s and placed it under central Tibetan administration.