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[[Image:Dolma podrang.jpg|thumb|400px|'''Drolma Podrang in Tibet]]
'''Drolma Podrang''' (Tib. སྒྲོལ་མ་ཕོ་བྲང་, [[Wyl.]] ''sgrol ma pho brang'') — one of the two remaining branches of the [[Khön family]] lineage of the [[Sakya]] school. It was also the name for its physical residence (or palace, Tib. ''podrang'') in Tibet.

During the fourteenth century, Tishri Kunga Lodrö Gyaltsen (1299-1327), eldest grandson of [[Sakya Pandita]]'s brother, established four dynastic houses (Tib. ''lhabrang''): 
*Shyithok (Wyl. ''bzhi thog''), 
*Rinchen Gang (Wyl. ''rin chen sgang''), 
*Lhakhang (Wyl. ''lha khang''), and 
*Düchö (Wyl. ''dus mchod''). 

Only the Düchö Labrang remains to this day. During the eighteenth century, the Düchö Labrang was split into two 'cousin' palaces, by 32nd [[throneholders of the Sakya school|Sakya Trizin]] [[Wangdü Nyingpo]], known as the:
*Drolma Podrang and
*[[Phuntsok Podrang]]. 

The Drolma Podrang was established by Sakya Trizin Jamgön Wangdü Nyingpo's eldest son, [[Pema Düdul Wangchuk]], while the Phunstok Podrang was established by his youngest son, [[Kunga Rinchen]]. 

The leadership in the Khön Family and the [[throneholders of the Sakya school]] have since then alternated between the Drolma and Phuntsok Podrangs.

H.H. the 41st Sakya Trizin, [[Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche]], is the current head of the Drolma Podrang at Rajpur, India, and his son, [[Kyabgon Gongma Trizin Rinpoche]], is the current throneholder of the Sakya school.

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