Kyide Nyimagon

Kyide Nyimagon (died c. 930)[2] (Tibetan: སྐྱིད་ཨིདེ་ཉི་མ་མགོན, Wylie: skyid ide nyi ma mgon, THL: kyi idé nyi ma gön; Chinese: 吉德尼玛衮; pinyin: jídé nímǎgǔn), whose original name was Khri-skyid-lding, was a member of the Yarlung dynasty of Tibet and a descendant of emperor Langdarma, who founded the kingdom of Ngari Khorsum ("the three divisions of Ngari")[3] in Western Tibet around 912 CE. After his death, his large kingdom was divided among his three sons, giving rise to the three kingdoms of Maryul (Ladakh), Guge-Purang and Zanskar-Spiti.

Kyide Nyimagon
Empire of king Nyimagon in 975
Ngari Khorsum
Maryul
SuccessorLhachen Palgyigon
Guge-Purang
SuccessorTashigön
Zanskar
SuccessorDetsukgön
BornKhri-skyid-lding
Lhasa
Diedc. 930
Tsaparang
Consort'K'or-skyon[1]
boསྐྱིད་ཨིདེ་ཉི་མ་མགོན
FatherDepal Khortsen

Family

After the assassination of the emperor Langdarma, the Tibetan empire entered a period of civil war over succession by Langdarma's two sons Yumtän (Yum-brtan) and Ösung ('Odsrung), which divided the empire into two parts.[3][4] Ösung's son Depal Khortsen (c. 870–c. 910)[5] is believed to have controlled most or part of Central Tibet.[6]

Palgyigon was one of the sons of Depal Khortsen, the other being Trashi Tsentsän (bKraśis-brtsegs-brtsan).[1] Both the sons fled Ü-Tsang (Central Tibet) in 910 when their father was murdered, at the end of the 3rd revolt in Ü-Tsang, which is taken to mark the beginning of the Tibetan Era of Fragmentation.

Reign

Nyimagon established a kingdom in Ngari (Western Tibet), in or around 912. He annexed the kingdoms of Purang and Guge. He then established his capital in Guge.

The Sino-Tibetan culture came to replace the culture of Brokpa and Mons in present-day Ladakh, which had been present in the region for a long time.[2]

Succession
Sculptures of Maitreya at Shey, possibly raised by Nyimagon circa 975 AD.[7]

He gave Lhachen Palgyigon (Tibetan: དཔལ་གྱི་མགོན, Wylie: dpal gyi mgon), his elder son, the kingdom of Maryul (now known as Ladakh).[8] His other two sons, Tashigön (Tibetan: བཀྲ་སིས་མགོན, Wylie: bkra sis mgon), and Detsukgön (Tibetan: ལྡེ་གཙུག་མགོན, Wylie: lde gtsug mgon) received respectively Guge-Purang and Zanskar. These three countries together were called Ngari Korsum.[9][8]

He died around 930.[2]

Tashigön's son Yeshe-Ö, lama-king, who inherited from him Guge-Purang in 967,[10] abdicated in 975 and devoted himself to monastic life.

References
  1. Petech 1977, p. 15.
  2. Hāṇḍā 2001, p. 128.
  3. Ryavec 2015, p. 70.
  4. Schlichtmann, Klaus (2016), A Peace History of India: From Ashoka Maurya to Mahatma Gandhi, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd, p. 108, ISBN 978-93-85563-52-2
  5. McKay 2003, p. 57.
  6. Petech 1977, pp. 14–15.
  7. Francke, A. H. (1907). A History of Western Tibet: One of the Unknown Empires. S. W. Partridge & Co. (London). p. 63.
  8. Francke 1992, p. 94.
  9. Fisher, Rose & Huttenback 1963, p. 19.
  10. Hāṇḍā 2001, p. 209.

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