In the "Origin of the Gongtang Lineage", it is recorded that the small dynasty established by Chi Tashi Zebabe in the Area of Jilong is called the "Gongtang Dynasty", which has been passed down for 32 generations and has gone through hundreds of years. Rome was not built in a day, nor did it fall in a day. If the rise and fall of dynasties is a cycle of causes and conditions, then the ups and downs of this rise and fall are a very meaningful part of this long river of history.
The cycle of causes and conditions for the rise and fall of dynasties
In the southeast corner of Jilong County, you can faintly see the ruins of a dilapidated tucheng city, which is the Gongtang Wangcheng City, which has long been left out in the corner of history, which is remote and almost completely out of people's vision. Gongtang Wangcheng was built roughly in the middle of the 11th century AD, and in the following centuries, it was continuously built and expanded, and finally finalized in the middle of the 15th century, and in the years of wind and rain erosion and looting by soldiers and bandits, the city and many buildings inside the city have long ceased to exist.
Its owners are said to be descendants of the illustrious Tubo royal family and are closely associated with the Guge kingdom of Ali in present-day western Tibet.
In 869 AD, the Tubo Kingdom had a "subject rebellion against the superior", and there was a long-term war within the Tubo royal family for the succession to the throne, which eventually led to the collapse of the Tubo Kingdom. In the midst of the storm, Jidenimagun, a descendant of Wei Song, the son of the last Tibetan zamprandama, had to flee west to Ali. In the Tibetan history book The Collected Histories of Han and Tibet, it is recorded that Jidni Magun had a half-brother named Tri tashi Zebabe. When his brother fled to Ali, his half-brother Chi Tashi Zebabe also fled westward, and the history books record that he occupied the area below Ali Gongtang, also known as "Lower Ali", which is today's Giron area. Chi Tashi Zebabe established a small dynasty here, the Gongtang Dynasty. The Gongtang Dynasty has been passed down for 32 generations and has gone through hundreds of years.
If the rise and fall of dynasties is a cycle of causes and conditions, then the story of ups and downs in this rise and fall is an extremely heavy part of this long river of history. The Gongtang Dynasty began to go down from the seventeenth king, Lawang Gyaltsen, and since then there has not been a single heroic king, and this trajectory of decline has always led the Gongtang Dynasty to the end of the abyss.
The nineteenth king of Gongtang, Chilang Jiede, died in a hurry at a young age, leaving no heirs, leaving a huge doubt for the Gongtang Dynasty. At the instigation of various forces, the three half-brothers of Chilangjede each raised their banners and claimed hegemony in one city, gongtang wangcheng.
After a period of time, the Gongtang Royal City was almost reduced to a free market, and the three princes occupied the Nangong, the North Palace and the Gedan Palace respectively. The face-to-face confrontation between the princes in the royal city is quite a bit of a "son of heaven guarding the gate of the country", but their respective support forces are busy in dividing the land in the country, and the gongtang kingdom at the good end is almost divided into three parts. The three brothers compared the construction of the royal palace and the temple, and for a time the interior of the royal city was built with a large number of civil engineering, the buildings were more luxurious than the other, and the ceremonies of the Buddha were more and more solemn.
In order to compete for the position of king, a bloody conflict broke out between the southern and northern palaces, and the armies of the two factions met each other in the royal city, and the prince who lived in the northern palace died. Although the prince of nangong, Chijay Sangjud, killed his brother, his own army was also crippled, but he made his strength slightly weaker, and the prince Gonggalangjed who lived in the Gedan Palace picked up the advantage. After this tragedy, the gongtang royal city was devastated, witnessing the death of his brother, and GonggaLangjede was also disheartened by the throne. He put his son on the throne, and this was the twentieth king of Gongtang, Guisan Nidzhaba Sambud.
During the ongoing civil unrest in Gongtang, the country's social life suffered a heavy blow. Even more unfavorable was that the Sakya sect, which had always been the pillar of the Gongtang Dynasty, was also weakening day by day, and the pazhu local government replaced the Sakya as the ruler of most of the Weizang region.
The havoc brought by the princess
The period during which the Sakya regime was replaced by the Paju regime was roughly similar to the time of civil strife in the Gongtang Dynasty. If the Sakya sect had remained strong, as a suzerainty, it would naturally not allow the Gongtang chaos to continue to ferment, but the Sakya sect at that time did not have the energy to take care of Gongtang, a remote place surrounded by mountains on all sides, and after the Pazhu regime seized the leadership of Wuszang, it did not have much interest in the Gongtang Dynasty.
Therefore, when the war in the royal city was gradually extinguished, it was still the members of the Gongtang royal family who managed the land.
Gonggarlangeed's son, Guisan Nidzhabsang budd, grew up in a precarious struggle for the royal city, and the horror of the precarious situation and the fear of the tragic end of his uncles are deeply imprinted in his soul. When he held the scepter of the Gongtang Kingdom in his hand, the throne brought him not the pleasure that many people dreamed of, but the endless fear of the abyss.
The twentieth king of Gongtang, in order to escape the power struggle, went so far as to live directly in tashi Mango Temple and became a khenpo, so his governance of the kingdom was in a mess. Fortunately, the Gongtang King's qi is not exhausted, the foundation is still there, before his death, even if the Gongtang Kingdom trembled, it was still able to support the day.
Guisan nidzhaba Sambud himself had two biological sons, but both died prematurely. As he grew older, the throne of Gongtang was left unsustainable. He had witnessed the tragedy of the prince's struggle for power, and he would never let this scene be repeated. To this end, he made his nephew Gui Sanzaba Dorji crown prince.
This was a measure that was not controversial, after all, the old king was still alive at this time, and it was not wrong to directly designate a blood relative as the crown prince. Neither the Gongtang royal family nor the ministers of the court had any objection to this, and only one person was dissatisfied, and that was the princess of the old kingdom, Tsering Jem.
In the "Origin of the Gongtang Lineage", there is no explanation of why this concubine is dissatisfied, and according to common sense, this succession of the throne has no connection with her. But judging from what she did afterwards, her hatred for the two kings before and after her had reached the point of not dying. Shortly after the 21st Gongtang king Guisang Zaba Dorji ascended the throne, Tsering Jem instigated infighting in Gongtang and sent people to kill the mother of the new Gongtang king, the empress dowager of the Gongtang Dynasty. After the matter was successful, she was not satisfied, and wanted to murder the two kings, old and new. This time, Princess Tsering Jem was not so lucky, and it is said that the army she recruited was defeated by the monks of the three monasteries of Gomang, Nammuling, and Pula, and she herself was imprisoned.
After his capture, Tsering Jem was very calm and made no secret of the conspiracy, claiming that the murder of the monarch was to sacrifice the tribute pond to the Rinpochepa regime.
Six hundred years of the dynasty was destroyed by war
The history of the Rinpoche family can be traced back to the Songtsen Gampo period of the Tubo Dynasty, when there was a minister named Gel Rebazen, who was said to be responsible for the construction of the Buddhist hall of Changzhu Temple. Rinpoches worshipped him as an ancestor, which is also the origin of his family name Gel. After the rise of the Paju family, the Rinpoche family became one of the most important vassals of their regime.
However, the glory of the Rinpochepa regime did not last long, and in 1618 AD, another great tycoon of Later Tibet, Simshapa, rose strongly, and Simshapa's sphere of influence encompassed almost the entire of Tibet, and its regime called itself "Tibet", which is the area around Kaze today, and "Gabo" means king). This was also the beginning of the "Tibetan-Pakistani regime" in Tibetan history, known in history as "Tsangpa Khan" or "Tsitsi Tsangpa".
The twenty-first king of Gongtang, Guisang Zaba Dorji, faced with Tsering Jem's great sin of rebellion and the revenge of killing his mother, handled it in a relatively gentle manner, but exiled her to the vicinity of Yang Zhuoyongcuo. Tsering Jem was originally a native of Yangzhuo, and the punishment of exile was even more mild.
However, the beauty of Yang Zhuoyong's mistake did not extinguish the resentment in Tsering Jem's heart, and in 1555, she again contacted the Rinpochepa regime and led Rinpoche's army to Gongtang. When the mighty Rinpochepa army came to the shore of Pejutsu, king Gongtang, who had received the news, organized the people to resolutely resist and, with the assistance of local leaders and monks of the monastery, fought a decisive battle with the Rinpoche army. Fortunately, at this time, Ren Bengpa was also setting in the west, and the combat effectiveness of the army was not much higher than that of the Gongtang army, and after a bitter battle, it finally repelled the attack of Ren Bengpa.
Repelling Rinpoche's army could only allow Gongtang to gain temporary peace. Subsequently, rebellions in Gongtang were frequent. Some people even tried to contact the Gurkhas to split the kingdom, and the gongtang at this time attracted the attention of the surrounding powerful like a piece of fat.
In the autumn of 1620, the Tibetan Khan Phuntsok Langjie besieged Gongtang, and the 23rd king Chisolang Wangjude went out of the city and surrendered, and the Gongtang Dynasty was destroyed. The Gongtang Dynasty was founded in 992 AD, and the royal power was passed down for 23 generations at the time of its demise, and it went through the four dynasties of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties in the Central Plains.
In 628 years, the Gongtang Dynasty created a splendid culture in the relatively isolated and narrow area of Jilong, and its unique Buddhist temples, murals, and statues all had distinct exotic characteristics, especially the "Pingtu Qiangmu" dance, which was an indispensable part of Tibetan culture.
Now, Geelong is regarded as the "Secret Land of the Millennium" and "The Paradise of the Relics" by the tourist guides, but few tourists who rush to know the glory of the Gongtang Dynasty, and few people know the lotus master, Atisha and Milarepa masters, the arduous trek and stoicism of promoting Buddhism in Geelong.
In fact, it is these pasts that constitute the spiritual soul of Ji long and add luster to the mysterious and splendid history and culture of Tibet. Even if all this ends up in the dust, in the writing and sketching of posterity, it is a little clearer.