(en) Melissa R. Kerin, Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya (lire en ligne), p. 19« This relatively undocumented period corresponds to the period of foreign rule by the Mongols of the Yuan dynasty, which lasted for nearly a century (1271-1368). Yuan dynasty, which lasted for nearly a century (1271-1368). It should be noted that some scholars are hesitant to suggest that the Yuan dynasty had a direct effect in the western region — which was physically far removed from central Tibetan politicals orbits—because of a dearth of substansive evidence suggesting direct Yuan control. As Roberto Vitali's critical reading of the Mnga'ris rgyal rabs reveals, the hundread-year interruption in West Tibet's suzereainty coincides with an escalation in Sakya, and therefore Yuan, control of Ngari. Moreover, based on a translation of documents from Zha lu (Shaly), a Sakya pa monastery in Central Tibet, Giuseppe Tucci also suggested that West Tibet was indeed under the control of the Greater Yuan Empire during the fourteenth century. »
(en) Melissa R. Kerin, Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya (lire en ligne), p. 211-212« Immediatly after the end of Grags.pa.lde's reign, in the years 1277-1280, Gu.ge passed under the Sa.skya.pa-s, who ruled locally by means of their Khab Gung.thang and Zhwa.lu feudatories. This is the most obscure period in the history of Ngari skor gsum and other territories of Stod. »« During the years 1288-1368 central Tibet including Lower (sMad) mNga'-ris, was governed by the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty of China in partenership with the Sa-skya-pa sect. »
(en) Omacanda Handa, Buddhist Western Himalaya : Part1 A politico-religious history, New Delhi, Indus Pub. Co., , 400 p. (ISBN978-81-7387-124-5, OCLC50110316, lire en ligne), p. 150-151
(en) Sampildondov Chuluun et Uradyn E. Bulag, The Thirteenth Dalai Lama on the Run (1904-1906) (lire en ligne), p. 2
John Vincent Bellezza, 2009, http://www.tibetarchaeology.com/october-2009/ "many religious and cultural assets of Ngari were looted or razed, causing losses on an almost unimaginable scale"
René Grousset, « L’Empire des steppes — Attila, Gengis-khan, Tamerlan », Classiques de l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1938, p. 645 : « Dans une première expédition (vers 1639 ?), il entra au Tibet, et défit tous les ennemis du dalaï-lama, tant partisans du clergé rouge que sectateurs de la vieille sorcellerie bon-po. Au cours d’une deuxième campagne, il fit prisonnier le de-srid de gTsang (vers 1642 ?), occupa Lhassa et proclama le dalaï lama Nag-dbang bLo-bzang souverain du Tibet central (Dbus et Tsang). Comme signe de la souveraineté temporelle à lui conférée par le prince khochot, bLo-bzang se fit construire une résidence sur l’emplacement du palais des anciens rois du Tibet, au Potala de Lhassa (1643-1645). En revanche, Gouchi-khan, déjà maître du Koukou-nor, du Tsaïdam et du Tibet septentrional, fut reconnu par le pontife, à Lhassa même, comme protecteur et vicaire temporel de l’Église Jaune. Jusqu’à sa mort en 1656, il fut vraiment, comme l’appelait la cour de Pékin, le « khan des Tibétains » ».
(en) Omacanda Handa, Buddhist Western Himalaya : Part1 A politico-religious history, New Delhi, Indus Pub. Co., , 400 p. (ISBN978-81-7387-124-5, OCLC50110316, lire en ligne), p. 150-151
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(fr) Serge-André Lemaire, « L'Himalaya indien », sur zonehimalaya.net, Zone Himalaya, (consulté le )
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