zhang rGyal tsan

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Other names / Alternative spellings 


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

zhang 

mChims?* 

 'Bro?* 


Period of activity 

Reign of Khri 'Dus srong mang po rje? 

Regency of 'Bro za Khri ma lod khri steng 

VIIth century? 

VIIIth century? 


Biographical data 

The zhang rGyal tsan (ms. ITJ 1368 l. 15) was a contemporary of Khri bangs** (ms. ITJ 1368 l. 12, 24) in Monkey year [708?].


Titles 

zhang (ms. ITJ 1368 l. 15)


Notes 

Transl. of ms. ITJ 1368 in Thomas 1951 p. 11 

*Possibly mChims or 'Bro, according to the context of the early VIIIth c.. Note that a 'Bro rGyal mtshan seng ge is mentioned by dPa' bo gtsug lag 'phreng ba in a list that may, however, refer to the early reign of Khri Srong lde brtsan (but is placed by the author in the time of Srong btsan sgam po). The same character's name is given as 'Bro rGyal seng ge in other sources (as a ru lag dmag dpon in Blon po bka' thang IV, a ru pa'i dpon po in mKhas pa lde'u 2010 ed p. 246-248).

**Sent as a bride to the 'A zha king in 689, received the Chinese princess Jincheng on her way to Tibet in 710.