Rlang lHa bzher

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Other names / Alternative spellings

lHa bzher mdo brtsan (ms. PT 1078bis l. 3, 10, 31)

Rlang blon lHa bzher (ms. PT 1078bis l. 5)

lHa bzher  (ms. PT 1078bis l. 31, ITJ 1126 l. 1) 

Rlang lHa bzher (ms. Or.15000/486 l. r3) 

Rlang lHa bzher mdo brtsan (reconstructed name)  


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

Rlang family 

Period of activity 

IXth century?*

Reign of Khri gTsug lde brtsan? 

Reign of 'U 'i dum brtan? 

Biographical data 

Rlang lHa bzher, Rlang lHa skyes and blon bCan zigs are mentioned on a document found in Mîrân (ms. Or.15000/486 l. r3) 

Blon lHa bzher was a contemporary of zhang Legs bzang and zhang sTag rma g.yu gong in a Dragon year [836? 848?]* (ms. ITJ 1126 l. 1).  

Rlang blon lHa bzher mdo btsan was a contemporary of blon rGyal btsan and blon bTsan bzang (ms. PT 1078bis l. 4), khri zla blon bTsan sum brtsan (ms. PT 1078bis l. 6, 32, 37) blon mDo bzher, blon sTag sum stag legs (ms. PT 1078bis l. 25), to do blon Klu bzang stag skyes (ms. PT 1078bis l. 34)...

Titles 

blon (ms. PT 1078bis l. 3, 5, 10, 31, ITJ 1126 l. 1) 

Notes

On ms. Or.15000/486 see Takeuchi 1997-1998 n° 602 

See also ms. PT 1294 according to which blon mDo brtsan led a campaign in Hor yul (Uyghur land) with zhang blon ched po zhang Khri sum bzher and blon bTsan bzher. It could be another blon mDo brtsan, such as dBa's Khri sum bzher mdo brtsan (mentioned under the reign of Khri lDe srong btsan Sad na legs in dPa' bo gtsug lag 'phreng ba 2003 ed. p. 411-413 a.k.a. blon Khri sum bzhengs mdo' brtsan in the inscr. lDan ma brag II l. 10)

*S. van Schaik (2012, p. 430) dates ms. ITJ 1126 from the mid IXth century.