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stopped at the village of Gya-mo-Shong. Here the house that he 
and his party occupied, accidently caught fire, which quickly 
spreading so surrounded him that he and his servants very 
narrowly escaped from being burnt. _ On his return he founded the 
monastery of Khartag Gonsar, and stayed there to avert the 
calamities that, according to his fortune-tellers, hung over him. 
He always roved from one place to another. Chyang-tag Chyan 
presided at the head of the State Church for a few years. 
. After Cakya Rinchen’s death his younger brother, Tagrin, 
filled the throne of Nedong-tse.. For some time the state affairs 
were in the hands of Gyal-tshan-Zang and his cousin. The con- 
trol of the government remained with Chyan-fa till Gyal-tshan 
Zang, also called Tagrin, came in a state ,hide-boat from 
Gongkar to relieve him of the charge. He was succeeded by 
Tagpa Gyal-tshan, a boy of eleven, the son of Cakya Rinchen, in 
the year Tree-bird. 
From his boyhood Tagpa Gyal-tshen took to athletic and 
intellectual exercises. When he advanced in age he began to 
show his ability and fortitude. Within a few years of his attain- 
ment of youth, he established his authority over all the governors 
of U and Tsang. The Emperor Ta-Ming bestowed on him the 
decorations of Konting Gushri and Tshan-ha Wang, and presented 
him with a gold seal. He also from time to time received other 
titles of honour, besides kind instructions from the Emperor him- 
self. Power, fortune, and wisdom were ever attached to him. 
His reign extended from the 11th to the 59th year of his age. 
The State under his rule progressed very much in wealth and 
prosperity. Of all the rulers of the Phagdu dynasty, his reign 
was the longest. He died at Nedong-tse in the 59th year of his 
age in the year Water-mouse. 
From the foundation of Nedong-tse and Namgyal Jong of 
Yarlung by T’hipon Dorjepal in the year 'ree-tiger to the present 
year Tree-tiger (1432 A.D.) 240 years have elapsed. Nedong-tse 
was therefore founded in the year 1192 A.D. 
Another account of Ohyan-Chub Gyal-tsan and his successors. 
In the year 1302 A.D. Chyaf-Chib Gyal-tshan, of the well 
known family of Lhazig, was born in the town of Phag-du in 
Central Tibet. After subjugating all the thirteen (Thzkor) provinces 
of Tibet proper and also Kham, he had established his sway over 
Tibet. At the age of eighteen he was appointed to the com mand 
of 10,000 soldiers under orders from the Hmperor of China. This 
sudden elevation excited the jealousy and enmity of the chiefs of 
Di-gun, Tshal, Yahzani and Sakya authorities, who spared no pains 
in devising means to ruin him. -At last, they drove him to war. 
In the first battle he met with some reverses, but was victorious in 
the second. The war lasted for many years, when ultimately 
victory attended the arms of the chief of Phagdu, who captured, 
almost all the hostile chiefs and threw them into prison. After 
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