Kham, as one of the traditional human geographical units of Tibet, was until the 1950s a region of overlapping tribal and village communities, religious institutions and feudal systems, with many small local polities that were not integrated into the larger Tibetan church system, frontier Tusi to the central dynasty, and kings to the internal society in combination with Tibetan Buddhist forces.This article foucuse on the two families in northern Kham in Sichuan-the Derge Tusi and the Gling Tusi, descentants of the divine king Gesar and the Tubo nobility, both political entities that oncce dominated the Kham region. Considered by the local people to the extremely different types of kings, the Derge Tusi relied on a strict judicial system, military power and Buddhist power &amp;amp;amp;nbsp;to become a very Buddhist king. The Gling Tusi ,on the other hand,was believed to have been born with divine powers and his ancestral magician powers gave him a natural political prestige, a kind of magician king. The ancestors of the Derge Tusi first acquired ownership of the land through intermarriage with the Gling family, establishing an independent regime from then on, and maintaining a stable structure of intermarriage with Gling thereafter.&amp;amp;amp;nbsp; Marriage has always been fundamental to the understanding of politics in anthropological studies, and their marital relationships are key to undersanding&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;their respective political structures and sources of kingship. The structure of their kingship is very similar to the two Indo-European representations of sovereignty of the anthropologist G.Dum&amp;amp;amp;eacute;zil, so a comparative study&amp;amp;amp;nbsp; with Indo-European kingship is one aims of this paper. At the same time, the sdudy of kingship and politics in northren Kham is important to our understanding of traditional Tibetan society under a hierarchical system, such as in Kham.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p></p>
