Tibet

Tibet in 1337 was governed from Sakya by the Khon family of lamas under Yuan overlordship. Namkha Lekpa Gyaltsen held religious authority while a dpon-chen administered temporal affairs.

Namkha Lekpa was deposed in 1341 as Sakya power weakened. Between 1354 and 1358 the Phagmodru lord Changchub Gyaltsen overran Sakya estates and founded an autonomous Kagyu kingdom at Nêdong. The Phagmodrupa later gave way to the Tsangpa kings; in 1642 the Khoshut Güshi Khan installed the Fifth Dalai Lama’s Ganden Phodrang government.