Kunga Lekpa Jungne Gyaltsen [SEP] position held
Kunga Lekpa Jungne Gyaltsen
Kunga Lekpa Jungne Gyaltsen () (1308 - 1330) was a Tibetan Imperial Preceptor ("Dishi") at the court of the Mongol Yuan dynasty. He belonged to the abbot family Khon of Sakya which had a precedence position in Tibet in this era. He held the dignity from 1327 to 1330.
Family background.
Kunga Lekpa Jungne Gyaltsen was one of the 13 sons of the abbot-ruler of Sakya, Zangpo Pal (d. 1323). His mother was Machig Yondagmo.
When his elder brother Kunga Lotro Gyaltsen held the dignity of "Dishi", he decreed a division of Zangpo Pal's many sons into four groups, each of which resided in a particular palace (Zhitog, Lhakhang, Rinchengang, and Ducho). Kunga Lekpa Jungne Gyaltsen belonged to the Lhakhang branch. When the "Dishi" died in the imperial capital in March 1327, he was summoned by the emperor Yesün Temür to take up the dignity and was formally installed on 17 May 1327. He only arrived to Beijing in