zhang sTag bzher

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Other names / Alternative spellings 

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

'Bro family?*

mChims family?*

zhang 

Period of activity 

IXth century? 

Reign of Khri lDe srong brtsan? 

Biographical data 

In dragon year [?] zhang sTag bzher, blon sTag zigs, blon Khri 'bring and others were at Zha'i bde sum btsal for an assembly of bde blon (ms. PT 1093 see also zha'i bde sum tshal in ms. ITJ 1126 l. 1). 

Zhang sTag bzher received a letter from a blon bTsan zigs (ms. PT 2195, after the usual greetings: "...dbu rmog brtsan zhing chab srid yun du mtho bar smon lam rgyun du 'tsha[l]..."). 

Zhang sTag bzher may have been a contemporary of a blon sTag zigs,  and a blon Khri brtsan (ms. PT 1610 verso).

Titles 

zhang (ms. PT 1093 l. 1, PT 1750 verso, PT 1552 verso) 

nang rje po zhang (ms. PT 2195 l. 1) 

Notes 

See Lalou 1939-1961 doc. n° 1093, 1552, 1750, 2195 

Mention of zhang sTag bzher in ms. PT 1610 verso

 source: Gallica

*Two zhang sTag bzher are mentioned by dPa' bo gtsug lag 'phreng ba in his copy of the edict attributed to [Khri lDe srong brtsan] Sad na legs: zhang mChims rgyal sTag bzher rgyal slebs and zhang 'Bro sTag bzher pra bal stang (see Chos 'byung mkhas pa'i dga' ston 2003 ed. vol. I p. 412-413, also Dotson 2009 p. 158).