sPug Gyim tang rmang bu

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Other names / Alternative spellings 

sPung Gyim tang rmang bu (ms. PT 1287 l. 165-166) 

Gyim tang rmang bu (ms. PT 1287 l. 172) 

Social groups (status, family, lineage...) 

sPug 

Period of activity 

Reign of sTag bu snya gzigs 

Reign of gNam ri slon mtshan 

VIth century ? 

VIIth century ? 

Biographical data 

sPug Gyim tang rmang bu was Tshe spong Nag seng's servant (bran, ms. PT 1287 l. 165). 

sPug Gyim tang rmang bu knew about the conspiracy against dGu gri zing po rje khri pang sum (ms. PT 1287 l. 165-166). 

Because he was afraid to speak in his sleep, sPug Gyim tang rmang bu avoided to sleep with his wife, pretending that he was possessed by a yi dags spirit (ms. PT 1287 l. 166-168). 

sPug Gyim tang rmang bu and his wife then started to quarrel about everything (ms. PT 1287 l. 168-169). 

sPug Gyim tang rmang bu affected to restore friendly relations with his wife (ms. PT 1287 l. .170). 

One night, sPug Gyim tang rmang killed his wife by cuting her tongue with his teeth (ms. PT 1287 l. 170-171). 

sPug Gyim tang rmang bu fell ill and died, his line was cut (ms. PT 1287 l. 172). 

Titles 

Notes 

sPug Gyim tang rmang bu has to be distinguished from another character with a very similar name, sPug Gyim brtsan rmang cung, who lived in the time of Srong btsan sgam po. Since sPug Gyim tang rmang bu's line was apparently cut after he died, sPug Gyim brtsan rmang cung cannot be considered as his son (maybe a brother ?). 

They probably have to be identified to two characters named by sGa ston tshul khrims rgyal mtshan in a list of twenty scholars (mkhas pa nyi shu) : lde bon Gyim tsha rma chung and lde bon Gyim tang rma bo (see sGa ston tshul khrims rgyal mtshan's bsTan pa'i shan 'byed 'phrul gyi me long, p. 29).