Rinpungpa

Rinpungpa རིན་སྤུངས་པ་ 仁蚌巴
1435–1565
Capital	Shigatse
Common languages	Tibetan
Religion	Tibetan Buddhism
Government	Buddhist theocracy
Monarch
• 1435－1466	Norzang (first)
• 1479－1512	Donyo Dorje
• 1547－1565	Ngawang Jigme Drakpa (last)
History
• Established	1435
• Disestablished	1565
Preceded by Succeeded by Phagmodrupa dynasty Tsangpa
Today part of	China

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History of Tibet
Neolithic Tibet Zhangzhung Yarlung dynasty Tibetan Empire Era of Fragmentation Yuan rule Phagmodrupa dynasty Rinpungpa dynasty Tsangpa dynasty Khoshut Khanate Ganden Phodrang Ming–Tibet relations Qing rule 13th and 14th Dalai Lama PRC rule
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Rinpungpa (Tibetan: ཪིན་སྤུངས་པ་, Wylie: rin spungs pa, Lhasa dialect: [rĩ̀púŋpə́]; Chinese: 仁蚌巴) was a Tibetan dynastic regime that dominated much of Western Tibet between 1435 and 1565. During one period around 1500 the Rinpungpa lords came close to assembling the Tibetan lands around the Yarlung Tsangpo River under one authority, but their powers receded after 1512.