1260 CE
Phagpa, Kublai, and court patronage
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Tibetan Vajrayana and the state
After Kublai took power in 1260, Phagpa received preceptor titles and served as a religious instructor at court; this is a specific teacher-patron relationship, not a complete description of all Tibetan or Mongol communities.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1260
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- National Palace Museum — Phagpa y Kublai (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Not identified in metadata; document review pending
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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