166 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1905. 
Lamas failing to destroy the Dsong, diverted their attention to- 
wards Liing Shoi, Hod-na, and other places where they succeeded 
and schools became involved in civil dissensions. During this 
period the state of affairs in Tibet resembled the dark days which 
had followed the successsion of the apostate Langdarma to the 
throne of Tibet. 
The Chiefs of Tsang, who held office under the Phagmodu 
Rulers of Central Tibet, frequently led their troops to U to harass 
the people. They sometimes retired to their own strongholds after 
caused some injury to the people. In the year Iron-serpent (1580) 
internal dissensions again raged in Digong. n Dalai Yontan 
Gyatsho’s return from Mongolia, the Shwa-mar hierarch, Nag-wang _ 
Choitag, complimented him with a letter written in verse ; but some 
misapprehension having arisen as to its concealed meaning, Rab 
of Tibet. 
The King of Upper Tsang, with the help of a few petty 
chiefs of the south and north, incited the Na-wa Rong people . 
rebellion, in quelling which, the resources of the Government 0 
Central Tibet were greatly exhausted. Taking advantage of this 
disturbance he asserted his independence. d 
In the year Tree-serpent heading the troops of the Red am 
Black-cap Lamas of the Karma-pa School, he attacked the military 
1 Rinpfing or Rinchenpufig, a small town in the Tsang Rong get 
It contained a huge image of Maitreya famous ander the name of J 
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