Tibet

=== Phagmodrupa, Rinpungpa and Tsangpa dynasties ===
{{main|Phagmodrupa dynasty|Rinpungpa|Tsangpa}}
{{further|Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming dynasty}}
[[File:Gyantse Dzong4.jpg|thumb|[[Gyantse Fortress]]]]
Between 1346 and 1354, Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen toppled the Sakya and founded the Phagmodrupa dynasty. The following 80 years saw the founding of the [[Gelug]] school (also known as Yellow Hats) by the disciples of [[Je Tsongkhapa]], and the founding of the important [[Ganden Monastery|Ganden]], [[Drepung Monastery|Drepung]] and [[Sera Monastery|Sera]] monasteries near Lhasa. However, internal strife within the dynasty and the strong localism of the various fiefs and political-religious factions led to a long series of internal conflicts. The minister family [[Rinpungpa]], based in [[Ü-Tsang|Tsang]] (West Central Tibet), dominated politics after 1435. In 1565 they were overthrown by the [[Tsangpa]] dynasty of [[Shigatse]] which expanded its power in different directions of Tibet in the following decades and favoured the [[Karma Kagyu]] sect.

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| image1            = Khoshut Khanate.png
| caption1          = The [[Khoshut Khanate]], 1642–1717
| image2            = Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartarie Chinoise, et le Thibet (1734).jpg
| caption2          = Tibet in 1734. ''Royaume de Thibet'' ("Kingdom of Tibet") in ''la Chine, la Tartarie Chinoise, et le Thibet'' ("China, Chinese [[Tartary]], and Tibet") on a 1734 map by [[Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville]], based on earlier Jesuit maps.
| image3            = Qing china.jpg
| caption3          = Tibet in 1892 during the [[Qing dynasty]]
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