Tingmosgang

Tingmosgang, in Temisgam village beside the Indus, lies 92 km west of Leh near Khalatse, north of the main road. A palace and a monastery stand on a hillock above the village. King Drag-pa-Bum made it his capital in the 15th century, and through his grandson Bhagan came Ladakh's Namgyal dynasty, which held power until the Dogra annexation of 1841 and whose line lives on at Stok Palace.

The place gave its name to the Treaty of Tingmosgang, signed here in 1684 between Ladakh and Tibet, after the Fifth Dalai Lama had died. It ended the Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal war and fixed the frontier, gave Ladakh the sole right to trade in Tibetan pashmina in return for brick tea, and bound Ladakh to send regular missions with gifts to Lhasa. Along with Shey, Leh and Basgo, Tingmosgang is one of the seats of Ladakh's dynastic history strung along the Indus.