Tingmosgang

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Tingmosgang is a town on the bank of Indus river in Ladakh. The town has a palace and the monastery over a hillock.

Tingmosgang was built by King Drag-pa-Bum as his capital in the 15th century. It is through his grandson Bhagan that Ladakh's second dynasty originated - Namgyals ( Victorious) which politically endured until the Dogra annexation in 1841 and whose lineage still lives on in the Stok Palace.

Tingmosgang is also important from a historical point of view, it was here that in 1684 the “Treaty of Tingmosgang” was signed between Ladakh and Tibet wherein the boundary between the two countries was demarcated as we find it today besides other religious and trade agreements.

Geographically, the Indus Valley is the back-bone of Ladakh, historically from Upshi down to Khaltse, it is Ladakh's heartland. All the main places associated with Ladakh's dynastic history- Shey, Leh, Basgo and Tingmosgang- together with all the important gompas, outside Zanskar, are situated along this stretch of Indus.