Guge

Guge
Ruins of the Guge capital at Tsaparang
South Asia 1000 CE KARAKHANID KHANATE KHOTAN GHAZNAVID EMPIRE MULTAN EMIRATE GURJARA- PRATIHARAS PALA EMPIRE NAGVANSHIS KAMARUPA HINDU SHAHIS KUMAON MARYUL UTPA- LAS GUHILAS CHAULUKYAS CHUDASAMAS HABBARID EMIRATE CHAHAMANAS TOMARAS PARAMARAS SHILA- HARAS WESTERN CHALUKYAS EASTERN CHALUKYAS CHOLAS KADAMBAS CHANDELAS KALACHURIS SOMAVAMSHIS KALINGAS GUGE   ◁ ▷ Location of Guge and neighbouring polities in the early 1000s.[1]
Capital	Tsaparang
Religion	Tantric Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Shamanism, Bon
Government	Monarchy
• c. 910–c. 930	Kyide Nyimagon (first)
Preceded by Succeeded by Era of Fragmentation Ladakh
Today part of	China; India; Nepal

Guge (Tibetan: གུ་གེ་, Wylie: gu ge; Chinese: 古格) was an ancient dynastic kingdom in Western Tibet. The kingdom was centered in present-day Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. At various points in history after the 10th century AD, the kingdom held sway over a vast area including south-eastern Zanskar, upper Kinnaur district, and Spiti Valley, either by conquest or as tributaries. The ruins of the former capital of the Guge kingdom are located at Tsaparang in the Sutlej valley, not far from Mount Kailash and 1,200 miles (1,900 km) west from Lhasa.