Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen
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| Traditional Chinese | 絳曲堅贊 | ||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 松秋堅贊 | ||||
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| Tibetan | ཏའི་སི་ཏུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན | ||||
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Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen (Tibetan: ཏའི་སི་ཏུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: ta'i si tu byang chub rgyal mtshan) (1302 – 21 November 1364) was the founder of the Phagmodrupa dynasty that replaced the Mongol-backed Sakya dynasty, ending Yuan rule in Tibet. He ruled most of Tibet as desi (regent) from 1354 to 1364 (alt. 1371, 1373 or 1374). As a law-giver, politician and religious patron, he created a heritage that lasted centuries.