Sanggye Pal () was a Tibetan

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(''Dishi'') at the court of the

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-led

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of China. He lived from (1267-1314) and hailed from

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which was the foremost monastic regime in

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in this period. He held the title from 1305 to his demise in 1314. Sanggye Pal belonged to the Khangsarpa family, being the son of Sumpa Drakpa Gyaltsen. He was the younger brother of Drakpa Odzer who previously held the ''Dishi'' title. According to the

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(''History of the Yuan Dynasty''), the old ''Dishi'' Jamyang Rinchen Gyaltsen (d. 1305) was followed first by a Duoerjibale (Dorje Pal) in 1305–13, and then Sangjiayizhashi (Sanggye Tashi) in 1313–14. However, a document sent to the Tibetan myriarchy Zhalu in 1307 is issued by Sanggye Pal. It is therefore probable that Sanggye Pal took over the ''Dishi'' dignity in 1305 and kept it until 1314, and that he was also known as Dorje Pal. For the rest, not much is known of his activities. Tibet in this period was relatively stable under the administration of the Yuan dynasty. The Sakya see was ruled in this period by

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(1306-1323); one of his many sons,

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, succeeded Sanggye Pal at his demise in 1314.

Luciano Petech Luciano Petech (8 June 1914, Trieste – 29 September 2010, Rome) was an Italian scholar of Himalayan history and the early relations between Tibet, Nepal and Italy. He was Chair of History of Eastern Asia at the University of Rome from 1955 to ...

, ''Central Tibet and the Mongols: The Yüan-Sa-skya period in Tibetan history''. Rome 1990, p. 77.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pal, Sanggye Imperial Preceptors 1267 births 1314 deaths 14th-century Tibetan people

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