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Tenpa Tsering
Tenpa Tsering was king of Derge in Kham, eastern Tibet, in the early 18th century. In 1729 he founded the Derge Parkhang, the printing house whose woodblocks for the Kangyur and other Buddhist texts are still in use. Under him Derge extended its territory and became the leading kingdom of Kham.
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