The upper-Indus kingdom of Ladakh under its first dynasty — one of the three Ngari successor states carved out when Kyide Nyimagon, a refugee of the collapsed Tibetan Empire, divided western Tibet among his sons (the others becoming Guge and Purang). It carried Tibetan Buddhist rule into the Indus valley for five centuries, weathering raids from Kashmir.
Ended c.1460 when the last king, Lodro Chokden, was deposed and imprisoned by Bhagan, a prince of a side branch, who founded the Namgyal (second) dynasty that ruled to 1842.
The standard critical history: reconstructs the first dynasty's king-list from the Ladakh Chronicle and inscriptions, and dates the change of dynasty.
Accessible modern survey of Ladakh's geography, trade routes and dynastic history for the general reader.