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'''Tingmosgang''' is a fortress in [[Temisgam]] village, on the bank of [[Indus River]] in [[Ladakh]], in northwestern India. It is 92 km west of [[Leh]], near [[Khalatse]], and north of the present main road. The town has a palace and the monastery over a hillock.

==History==
Tingmosgang was built by King Drag-pa-Bum as his capital in the 15th century. It is through his grandson Bhagan that Ladakh's second dynasty originated - [[Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh|Namgyal]]s (Victorious) which politically endured until the Dogra annexation in 1841 and whose lineage still lives on in the Stok Palace.

===Treaty of Tingmosgang===
{{Further|Ladakh Chronicles#Treaty of Tingmosgang}}

Tingmosgang is significant from an historical point of view. After the death of the [[Fifth Dalai Lama]], the Regent ruling Tibet sent the head of the [[Drukpa Lineage|Drukpa]] order here as an emissary and in 1684 the [[Treaty of Tingmosgang]], sometimes called the Treaty of Temisgam,<ref name="howard">{{cite book |last=Howard |first=Neil |chapter=The Development of the Boundary between the State of Jammu & Kashmir and British India, and its Representation on Maps of the Lingti Plain |editor-last=Bray |editor-first=John |title=Ladakhi Histories: Local and Regional Perspectives |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |year=2005 |series=Brill's Tibetan Studies Library |volume=9 |isbn=9789004145511 |page=218}}</ref> was signed between Ladakh and Tibet, ending the [[Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War]] and demarcating the boundary between the two countries.<ref>Rizvi (1996), p. 74.</ref> The treaty also provided for Ladakh's exclusive right to trade in [[pashmina]] wool produced in Tibet, in exchange for brick-tea available from Ladakh. Ladakh was also bound to send periodic missions to [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]] carrying presents for the Dalai Lama.<ref>{{citation |editor-first=K. |editor-last=Warikoo |title=Himalayan Frontiers of India: Historical, Geo-Political and Strategic Perspectives |last=Warikoo |first=K. |chapter=India’s gateway to Central Asia: trans-Himalayan trade and cultural movements through Kashmir and Ladakh, 1846–1947 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_Z8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |ISBN=978-1-134-03294-5|p=4}}</ref>

Geographically, the [[Indus Valley]] is the back-bone of Ladakh, historically from [[Upshi]] down to [[Khaltse]], it is Ladakh's heartland. All the main places associated with Ladakh's dynastic history- [[Shey]], [[Leh]], [[Basgo]] and Tingmosgang - together with all the important [[gompa]]s, outside [[Zanskar]], are situated along this stretch of Indus [[river]].

==See also==
* [[Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* Rizvi, Janet. 1996. ''Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia''. Second Edition. Oxford India Paperbacks. 3rd Impression 2001. {{ISBN|0-19-564546-4}}.
* http://www.tibetjustice.org/materials/treaties/treaties2.html

{{Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh}}

[[Category:Leh district]]
[[Category:Buddhism in Ladakh]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Ladakh]]
[[Category:History of Ladakh]]

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