- The dpon-chen or
pönchen (Chinese: 本欽; pinyin: Běnqīn),
literally the "great authority" or "great administrator", was the
chief administrator or governor...
- This
article lists the
rulers of
Tibet from the
beginning of
legendary history.
Included are
regimes with
their base in
Central Tibet, that held authority...
- went back to
ancient times.
During the
Sakya period, when
regents called ponchen (dpon-chen)
ruled Tibet under Mongol (Yuan) overlordship,
Central Tibet...
- family,
within the Mongol-Sakya
framework headed by the
Mongol appointed Pönchen (dpon-chen) at Sakya. The
areas under Lang
administration were continually...
- was
actually in the
hands of
officials from
Sakya known as dpon-chen or
pönchen.
Their functions were
defined as follows: "He
governs by
order of the lama...
-
supervise all the
Buddhists of the empire, and a
Tibetan called dpon-chen (
Ponchen) or "Civil Administrator"
would live in
Tibet to
administer it. Nevertheless...
- not turn out to be
particularly effective. A
series of
administrators (
ponchen)
handled the
affairs of Tibet,
although with
varying success.
During the...
- he
fought with a
neighboring myriarchy, the then
Sakya ruler of
Tibet Ponchen Gyalwa Zangpo dismissed him as myriarch. He
later managed to
regain his...
- myriarchies. The
temporal administrator of
Tibet was
called dpon-chen (
ponchen) and
resided in
Sakya since about 1264. The abbot-rulers of the
Sakya see...
-
handled by a
succession of
administrators in Sakya,
called dpon-chen (
ponchen). They were:
Shakya Zangpo (c. 1264–1270)
Kunga Zangpo (c. 1270–1275) Zhangtsun...
