Nêdong

Neudong lies in the Yarlung country of central Tibet, close to the river valleys that nurtured the early Tibetan kingdom. Its fortress became the administrative seat of the Phagdru rulers, whose authority grew from the lands and monastic networks of the Phagmodrupa tradition. From here their government directed much of central Tibet. Between 1349 and 1354 Jangchub Gyaltsen broke the power of the Sakya administration and established Phagdru rule. He reorganised government around fortified districts and is credited with restoring a Tibetan legal system. Neudong remained the political centre of the dynasty even as its power later declined and the Rinpung family rose to dominance in the fifteenth century.