Mustang kingdom

The Kingdom of Mustang was a vassal kingdom located in the Mustang district of northern Nepal. It had only three cities including Lo Mantang, the capital, and 24 smaller towns, as well as eight monasteries. The kingdom is actually called Mastang and its ruler, from 1795 until the abolition of the Nepali monarchy in 2008, was a vassal of the King of Nepal. The ruler is Tibetan and has the title of Rajah in Nepali and Lo Gyelpo (King of Lo) in Tibetan. The government was in the hands of seven noble families who are the only ones with the right to be related to the royal house.

History

The kingdom was founded in 1380. At the beginning of the XX century it was Rajah Jamian Pelbar who died in 1905 and succeeded him Angun Tenzing Trandul. After the 1947 revolution he abdicated and was succeeded by his son Angdu Nyingpo; Upon his premature death in 1958, the father resumed the throne but abdicated again to his other son Jigme Dorje Trandul, 26th sovereign, last monarch, who ruled the kingdom until the abolition of the Monarchy on October 7, 2008 by order of the new government of Nepal.

The first Westerner to reach the Mustang was Swiss geologist and explorer Toni Hagen, who paid a brief visit to the kingdom in 1952 during one of his trips to the Himalayas. The Frenchman Michel Peissel is considered the first to spend the night in the capital (Lo Mantang) during his 1964 expedition, when permission was given for the first time to visit the kingdom extensively.

Flag

The kingdom has a national flag, a royal flag, and various religious flags.

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  Mustang National Flag

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  Royal flag of Mustang