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Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
Drogön Chögyal Phagpa was a Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Sakya school who became imperial preceptor to Kublai Khan. In the Yuan Dynasty he was given authority over Buddhist affairs and over Tibet, and he devised the 'Phags-pa script, intended as a common writing system for the empire's languages.
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