Godan Khan

Godan Khan and Khan Goeden (* 1206, † 1251 ) was a Mongol Khan and military person. He was the grandson of Genghis Khan and second son Ögedei Khan and Töregenes, brother of Gujuk Khan ( Güyük Khan). Godan was since 1235 a feudal lord over borderlands of Tibet in the former area of the Xixia kingdom of Tangut. He dominated the field of Xiliang ( in Gansu ) to the west. Through him, the Tibetan Buddhism was his first major input by the Mongols.

1247 he appointed the Tibetan religious leader of the Sakya school, Sakya Pandita ( 1182-1251 ), according to an interview Liangzhou at the site of the so-called Temple of the White Pagoda in Gansu, where the Tibetan submission to the rule of the Mongols, the conditions for an incorporation of Tibet into the Mongol empire were negotiated. The Tibetan Sakya family history work (Tib. sa skya gDung rabs; Chinese Sajia Shixi shi) from 1629 contains a letter Sakya Pandita to the spiritual and temporal leader in the various parts of Tibet from the time in which the details of which are discussed.