Phag-mo-gru family

Phag-mo-gru family
Tibetan family that in the 14th century liberated Tibet from Mongol control.

At that time Tibet was governed by lamas from the Sa-skya monastery who resided at the Mongol (Yuan) court in China. Under Byang-chub rgyal-mtshan (1302–1364), the Phag-mo-gru liberated central Tibet. For the next 100 years, a semblance of central authority was reestablished in the country.

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      Tibetan family that in the 14th century liberated Tibet from Mongol control. The Phag-mo-gru had begun to extend its power over the surrounding countryside in the 13th century at a time when the country was being governed by a series of lamas from the Sa-skya monastery, residing at the Mongol (Yuan) court in China. The death of the emperor Kublai Khan in 1294 marked the beginning of the decline of Mongol power; the Phag-mo-gru, under its great leader Byang-chub rgyal-mtshan (1302–64), moved in and soon began to actively dispute the Sa-skya lama's authority. By 1358 Byang-chub rgyal-mtshan had liberated all of central Tibet, eradicating Mongol control over the country. Byang-chub rgyal-mtshan and the Phag-mo-gru leaders who succeeded him assumed the title of Gong-ma, restored the Tibetan ethos as the ruling ideology, and divided the nation into districts governed by centrally appointed officials. During the next 100 years in which the Phag-mo-gru was dominant, a semblance of central authority was reestablished in the country. In the mid-15th century, however, the Phag-mo-gru rule was gradually usurped by the powerful Rin-spung family, who had previously been ministers to the Gong-ma.

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