The marriage of Bri-btsum, the Nepalese princess, to Sron-btsan-sgampo in 639 was followed by the arrival of Princess Wencheng two years later from the Tang court. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Supposedly, then, Tri Desongtsen (Khri lde-srong-btsan), more widely known as Songtsen-gampo (Srong-btsan sgam-po), the thirty-second Yarlung king, ascended the throne only four generations after Lhatotori Nyentsen. ❋ Unknown (2009)
During his short reign, his son Muney-tsenpo (Mu-ne btsan-po, r. 797 – 799) tried to implement some land reforms that ultimately were unsuccessful. ❋ Unknown (2009)
From the time of the eighth Yarlung king, Drigum Tsenpo (Gri-gum btsan-po), however, there are tombs and so, in a sense, Tibetan history begins here. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Under the leadership of his minister, Gar Tongtsen-yulsung (mGar sTong-btsan yul-srung, d. 667), the Tibetan armies conquered the Tuyuhun Kingdom through lengthy campaigns between 655 and 666. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He was succeeded by another son of Tri Songdetsen, Tri Desongtsen (Khri lDe-srong btsan, r. 799 – 815), also known as Saynaleg (Sad-na-legs). ❋ Unknown (2009)
King Songtsen-gampo (Srong-btsan sgam-po, r. 617 - 649) established an empire that stretched from northern Burma to the borders of Han China and Khotan. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the seventh century, King Songtsen-gampo (Srong-btsan sgam-po) had prophesied there would be a great tantric monastery at this site in the future. ❋ Unknown (2003)
This science had developed from the Chinese geomantic system brought to Tibet by the Chinese queen of King Songtsen-gampo (Srong-btsan sgam-po) (629-710). ❋ Unknown (2003)
The Yarlung Emperor Songtsen-gampo (Srong-btsan sgam-po) had wives not only from the Chinese and Nepali royal families (both of whom brought a few Buddhist texts and statues), but also from the royal family of Zhang-zhung. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The next major figure, Emperor Tri Songdetsen (Khri Srong sde-btsan), was cautious of the Chinese and paranoid of Zhang-zhung, most likely because his pro-Chinese father had been assassinated by the xenophobic, conservative Zhang-zhung political faction in the imperial court. ❋ Unknown (2000)
About 705 King Khri-gtsug-lde-btsan is said to have built monasteries, caused translations to be made, and summoned monks from Khotan. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)
Khri-gtsug-lde-btsan (705-755) and Rockhill calls attention to the interesting statement that he sent envoys to India who learned ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)
His efforts bore little fruit, for no Tibetans were willing to take the vows, but the edict of 783 preserved in Lhasa mentions his zeal for religion, and he prepared the way for Khri-sroṇ-lde-btsan in whose reign Padma-Sambhava, the real founder of Lamaism, arrived in ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)
While the Nanzhao people left little information to illuminate their early history, fortunately, Tibetan sources provide us with another side of their story, showing a cultural, marital, and military alliance between Nanzhao and Tubo, in which Tubo dominated. 43 Tibetan sources found in the Dunhuang Caves recorded that Vdus-srong-mang-po-rje (Khri-vdus-srong-btsan), king of Tibet (676 – 704), led an expedition to the Erhai Lake region and died there; therefore his son probably married a princess of Nanzhao. 44 An inscribed Tibetan tablet found in Lijiang revealed the submission of a Nanzhao prince or king to Tubo before the mid-eighth century. 45 This relationship is confirmed by a source in the Tibetan chronicles found in the Dunhuang Caves stating that Nanzhao (Vjang) was under Tibet's administration. 46 Such a close relationship might have accounted for that fact that Tubo did not intervene in Nanzhao's campaigns against other local regimes even though those regimes too were Tibet's vassals. 47 ❋ Unknown (2008)
Macdonald, Alexander W. "Religion in Tibet at the time of Srong-btsan Sgam-po" in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Csoma de Körös, Louis Ligeti (ed.), vol. 2. ❋ Unknown (1976)
According to other Tibetan sources, it was Tri Songdetsen’s son and successor, Emperor Muney-tsenpo (Mu-ne btsan-po) (r. 797 – 800), who deputed the expedition to the Bhata Hor.] ❋ Unknown (2009)
The next Tibetan Emperor was Mangsong-mangtsen (Mang-srong mang-btsan, r. ❋ Unknown (2009)
