Kunga Lotro Gyaltsen

Kunga Lotro Gyaltsen (Wylie: Kun dga' blo gros rgyal mts'an; Chinese: 公哥羅古羅思監藏班藏卜) (1299 - 1327) was a Tibetan Imperial Preceptor (Dishi) at the court of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China.

[1] The position of Imperial Preceptor or Dishi was always kept separate from that of abbot-ruler, and since 1286 it had been held by members of the Sharpa and Khangsarpa families.

Kunga Lotro Gyaltsen was summoned to the imperial court in North China by the great khan Ayurbarwada, and formally installed on 27 March 1315.

[3] A letter by his hand, issued in 1316, begins: "By the king's order, the words of Kunga Lotro Gyaltsen Palzangpo, imperial preceptor: To the officials of Pacification Commissioner rank, to generals, soldiers, administrators of the nang so, to judges, holders of golden letters, chiefs of districts, laymen and monks who collect taxes and go and come, to myriarchs, to dignitaries, a command.

In 1322 Kunga Lotro Gyaltsen returned to Sakya from Beijing in order to receive his final ordination as monk.

[5] One of the brothers, Khatsun Namkha Lekpa Gyaltsen was formal abbot-ruler after the death of his father, but seems to have exercised limited authority.