mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod

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Other names / Alternative spellings 

mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod (ms. PT 1287 l. 109, 495, 497) 

mGar Khri 'bring (ms. PT 1287 l. 501, 513) 

Khri 'bring (ms. PT 1287 l. 521, PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 75, 77, 92, 94, 97, 103, 104, 115, 121, 123, 127) 

Khri 'bring btsan brod (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 57, 91-92) 

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

mGar family

blon chen 

Period of activity 

VIIth century 

Reign of Mang slon mang rtsan 

Reign of Khri 'Dus srong Mang po rje 

Biographical data 

In Bird year [673] and Dragon year [680], mGar bTsan snya ldom bu summoned the council in association with [his younger brother] mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 56-58, 76-77). 

mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod became blon che (Great Minister) in Bird year [685], after [his elder brother] mGar bTsan snya ldom bu's death (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 91-92). 

In Bird year [685], mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod officially enthroned Khri 'Dus srong mang po rje (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 91-92). 

mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod led armies in the land of the Turks (dru gu yul) in Dog year [686] and Hog year [687]. He was back in Tibet in Ox year [689] (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 94-95, 97, 103). 

dBon Da rgyal [Khri zung] and blon che [mGar] Khri 'bring gathered the assembly at rTsang gyi gling kar tshal in Tiger year [690] (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 105-106). 

In Snake year [693] mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod went in the land of 'A zha (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 115). 

In Sheep year [695] mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod defeated a Chinese army led by Wang Zhang sho in the land of 'A zha at the place [since] known as "sTag la rgya dur" ("Chinese Graves of the Tiger Pass" ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 121-122, PT 1287 l. 495-523). 

mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod was in the land of 'A zha in Monkey year [696] (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 121-122). 

In Dog year [698] mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod defeated and seized the Chinese general Thug pu shi in Tsong ka (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 127-128). 

mGar [Khri 'bring btsan brod and his followers] were disgraced in the winter of Dog year [698-699] (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 128, PT 1287 l. 331-333).

According to the Old Tibetan Annals, there was no blon chen after mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod before the nomination of Khu Mang po rje lha zung in Snake year [705] (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 154)

Titles 

blon (ms. PT 1287 l. 521, PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 75, 77, 92, 94, 97) 

blon che (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 103, 104, 115, 121) 

blon ce (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 123) 

blon chen po (ms. PT 1288-ITJ 750 l. 127) 

Notes 

According to Chinese sources : 

- Qinling [i. e. mGar Khri 'bring btsan brod] was a son of Lun Dongzan [i. e. mGar sTong rtsan yul zung] (Jiu Tangshu and Xin Tangshu, transl. Pelliot 1961 p. 7, 85)

- In 699, Qi nu xi long [i. e. Khri 'Dus srong] organised the massacre of 2.000 members and supporters of the mGar family in order to regain the control of the state. He then led an army against Qinling/Khri 'bring who commited suicide after being abandoned by his followers (Pelliot 1961 p. 11, 94). 

- Qinling had a son named Mangbuzhi (most likely mGar Mang po rje stag rtsan) who fled to China after the downfall of the mGar family (Jiu Tangshu and Xin Tangshu transl. Pelliot 1961 p. 11, 94) also known as Lun Gongren (see Garatti 2015 p. 164, 167-171).

In contradiction with the Old Tibetan Annals, ms. PT 1287 states that mGar Khri 'Bring btsan brod was blon chen between dBa's Khri gzigs zhang nyen and dBa's Khri sum rje rtsang bzher (ms. PT 1287 l. 108-110).