{"id":"karma-tenkyong","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/karma-tenkyong","language":"en","name":"Karma Tenkyong","name_en":"Karma Tenkyong","name_ne":null,"description":"King of central Tibet (Ü-Tsang) (1606-1642)","headline":"King of central Tibet (Ü-Tsang) (1606-1642)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Karma Tenkyong, in full Karma Tenkyong Wangpo, was a king of Tibet who ruled from 1620 to 1642. He belonged to the Tsangpa Dynasty which had been prominent in Tsang since 1565. His reign was marked by the increasingly bitter struggle against the Gelugpa sect and its leader the Dalai Lama. The outcome was the crushing of the Tsangpa regime and the establishment of the Dharma-based Tibetan state that endured until 1950.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1606","date":"1606"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1331638#P569"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1642","date":"1642"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1331638#P570"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Tsang","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1672042"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1331638#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1331638#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"regent (1620–1642)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q477406","start":"1620","end":"1642"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1331638#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Tenkyong","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1331638"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Karma Tenkyong born?","a":"Karma Tenkyong was born on 1606."},{"q":"What positions has Karma Tenkyong held?","a":"Positions held by Karma Tenkyong include: regent (1620–1642)."}],"related":[{"name":"Gyanendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gyanendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Ferdinand II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ferdinand-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Berengaria of Castile","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/berengaria-of-castile"},{"name":"John II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Pope Adrian VI","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-adrian-vi"},{"name":"Ferdinand I of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ferdinand-i-of-aragon"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Karma Tenkyong","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Tenkyong","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q1331638","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1331638","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Karma Tenkyong, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Karma Tenkyong\". DigiNepal. Last updated 8 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/karma-tenkyong. Retrieved 14 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-08T06:49:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-14","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/karma-tenkyong","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/karma-tenkyong","ne":null}}