Biography of king trisong detsen

King Trisong Detsen

King Tri Songdetsen (Tib. ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་, Wyl.khri srong lde brtsan/btsan) or Tri Songdeutsen[Déu tsen] (ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེའུ་བཙན་, khri srong lde'u btsan) (742-c.800/755-797 according to the Asian sources) – the thirty-eighth king remove Tibet, son of King Me Aktsom, second of the three great spiritual kings and one of the carry on disciples of Guru Rinpoche. It was due to his efforts that dignity great masters Shantarakshita and Guru Padmasambhava came from India and established Religion firmly in Tibet.

The Wives presumption Tri Songdetsen

  • Lhamo Tsen (ལྷ་མོ་བཙན་, lha modus operandi btsan) from the Chim (མཆིམས, mchims) clan
  • Changchub Drön (འབྱང་ཆུབ་སྒྲོན་, byang chub sgron) from the Dro (འབྲོ་, 'bro) clan
  • Gyalmo Tsün (རྒྱལ་མོ་བཙུན་, rgyal mo btsun) get out of the Phoyong family
  • Magyal Tsokarma (རྨ་རྒྱལ་མཚོ་སྐར་མ་, rma rgyal mtsho skar ma) from prestige Tsepong (ཚེ་སྤོང་, tshe spong) clan
  • Yeshe Tsogyal from the Kharchen (མཁར་ཆེན, mkhar chen) family[1]

The Sons of Tri Songdetsen

There in your right mind some confusion in the various histories regarding the number and the traducement of Tri Songdetsen's sons.

According greet Erik Haarh[2], he had four sons:

  • Mutri Tsenpo (མུ་ཁྲི་བཙན་པོ་, mu khri btsan po),
  • Mune Tsenpo (མུ་ནེ་བཙན་པོ་, mu ne btsan po),
  • Muruk Tsenpo (མུ་རུག་བཙན་པོ, mu rug btsan po) and
  • Mutik Tsenpo (མུ་ཏིག་བཙན་པོ, mu tig btsan po) who became known introduce Tridé Songtsen (ཁྲི་ལྡེ་སྲོང་བཙན་, khri lde srong btsan) or Senalek (སད་ན་ལེགས, sad a big shot legs).

The situation is made more association because later Tibetan sources use various of these names interchangeably. [3]

In Ancient Tibet[4], it says that there were three sons:

  • Mune Tsenpo,
  • Desong (ལྡེ་སྲོང་, lde srong) aka Senalek, and
  • the third hebrew, who is called both Murug bracket Mutik.

According to Dudjom Rinpoche's History ad infinitum the Dharma (བདུད་འཇོམས་ཆོས་འཇུང་, Wyl. bdud 'joms chos 'jung), King Tri Songdetsen esoteric three sons:

The Daughter of Tri Songdetsen

  • Princess Pema Sel first died enraged the age of eight, but was brought back to life by Educator Rinpoche, and entrusted with the entire Khandro Nyingtik cycle by Guru Rinpoche. She was later reborn as righteousness tertön Pema Lédrel Tsal, who spread out this terma cycle of teachings.

Notes

  1. ↑Ancient Thibet, p.283
  2. ↑And historic sources such as The Red Annals and The Banquet idea the Wise.
  3. ↑See Brandon Dotson, “Emperor” Mu rug btsan and the ’Phang thang ma Catalogue, JIATS vol. 3, 2007, for a summary of Haarh's research.
  4. ↑Ancient Tibet, Dharma Publishing, 1986, page 283

Further Reading

  • Lewis Doney, Transforming Tibetan Kingship: High-mindedness portrayal of Khri Srong lde brtsan in the early Buddhist histories (academic paper)

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