Dranga Palkye Yongten

Dranga Palkye Yongten (Tibetan: བྲན་ཀ་དཔལ་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན, Wylie: bran ka dpal kyi yon tan, ? – ?), also known as Dranga Yongten or Yongten, was a Buddhist monk of Tibetan Empire. He served as (Wylie: ban chen po, "Monk Minister") during Ralpacan's reign. He was friendly to Tang China, and signed a peace treaty between Tibet and China after a long-term war. A Chinese mission came to Lhasa in 821, to meet with Tibetan high officers, and swore an oath of friendship between the two states. They erected three stone monuments in Chang'an, Lhasa and Sino-Tibetan border, with the full text of the treaty (both in Chinese and Tibetan) in it. The only remained pillar still stands outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa today. According to the text, he was the highest minister of Tibet at that time.

Dranga Palkye Yongten

Dranga Palkye Yongten (Tibetan: བྲན་ཀ་དཔལ་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན, Wylie: bran ka dpal kyi yon tan, ? – ?), also known as Dranga Yongten or Yongten, was a Buddhist monk of Tibetan Empire. He served as (Wylie: ban chen po, "Monk Minister") during Ralpacan's reign. He was friendly to Tang China, and signed a peace treaty between Tibet and China after a long-term war. A Chinese mission came to Lhasa in 821, to meet with Tibetan high officers, and swore an oath of friendship between the two states. They erected three stone monuments in Chang'an, Lhasa and Sino-Tibetan border, with the full text of the treaty (both in Chinese and Tibetan) in it. The only remained pillar still stands outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa today. According to the text, he was the highest minister of Tibet at that time.