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Gar Tongtsen Yulsung

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Tibetan
  
མགར་སྟོང་བཙན་ཡུལ་སྲུང

Died
  
667 AD

THDL
  
gar tong tsen yül sung

Grandchild
  
Lun Gongren

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Wylie
  
mgar stong btsan yul srung

Children
  
Gar Trinring Tsendro, Gar Tsenye Dompu, Gar Tsenba, Gar Tsenyen Gungton, Gar Tagu Risum

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Gar Tongtsen Yülsung (Tibetan: མགར་སྟོང་བཙན་ཡུལ་སྲུང༌།, Wylie: mgar stong btsan yul srung, 590-667) was a general of the Tibetan Empire who served as Great Minister (Tibetan: བློན་ཆེན་, THL: lönchen) during the reign of Songtsän Gampo. In many Chinese records, his name was given as Lù Dōngzàn (Chinese: 祿東贊) or Lùn Dōngzàn (Chinese: 論東贊); both are attempts to transliterate the short form of his title and name, Lön Tongtsen.

Family

Gar Tongtsen had five sons, all of them were famous Tibetan generals:

  1. Gar Tsenye Dompu (Wylie: mgar btsan snya ldom pu)
  2. Gar Trinring Tsendro (Wylie: mgar khri 'bring brtan brod), also known as Lon Trinring (Wylie: blon khri 'bring) and Lùn Qīnlíng (Chinese: 論欽陵)
  3. Gar Tsenba (Wylie: mgar btsan-ba)
  4. Gar Tagu Risum (Wylie: mgar sta gu ri sum)
  5. Gar Tsenyen Gungton (Wylie: mgar btsan nyan gung rton)

References

Gar Tongtsen Yulsung Wikipedia