Kunzang

Kunzang (1445 – c. 1479), in full Kuntu Zangpo (Tibetan: ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ, Wylie: Kun tu bzang po), was a prince of the Rinpungpa Dynasty that wielded power in Tsang (West Central Tibet).

He was the second son of Norzang, the founder of the power of the family, and the Phagmodrupa princess Yeshe Tsogyal.

He received investiture as dsongpon (lord) of the Rinpung fief from the formal ruler of Central Tibet, Kunga Lekpa of the Phagmodrupa dynasty.

[1] The Phagmodrupa monarch, who had his residence in Nêdong in Ü (East Central Tibet), generally held an averse attitude to the Rinpungpa.

Like his father, Kunzang was a patron of the Sakya sect of Buddhism and established a patron-preceptor relation with the hierarch Kunkhyen Sangye Pal.