Norzang
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Norzang (1403–1466), in full Norbu Zangpo (Tibetan: ཎོར་བུ་བཟང་པོ, Wylie: Nor bu bzang po), was the founder of the power of the Rinpungpa Dynasty in Central Tibet.
Norzang was the son of Namkha Gyalpo, the chief of the Rinpung fief in Tsang (West Central Tibet). His grandfather Namkha Gyaltsen, the founder of the line, married a sister of the Phagmodrupa ruler Drakpa Gyaltsen.[1] Namkha Gyalpo was one of the principal ministers of the Phagmodrupa dynasty, and the patron of the Tsangrong monastery. Norzang inherited his functions at the early age of eleven and completed the construction of the Chamchen temple. In religious matters he favoured the Sakya and Kagyud sects of Buddhism. According to a somewhat doubtful story a Sakya cleric, the Choje of Ngor, gave religious instructions to Norzang in return for the promise that the Rinpung lord would fulfil three wishes of the Choje. These were to force all members of the rival Geden sect to yield to Sakya, to put an end to the construction of a monastery directed by Gedun Drub (posthumously counted as the first Dalai Lama), and to supply provisions for the female servants of the new monastery at Ngor. Norzang refused the requests since they would cause disturbances.[2]