Tibetan མགར་སྟོང་བཙན་ཡུལ་སྲུང Died 667 AD | THDL gar tong tsen yül sung Grandchild Lun Gongren | |
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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:
- Gar Tsenye Dompu (Wylie: mgar btsan snya ldom pu)
- 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)
- Gar Tsenba (Wylie: mgar btsan-ba)
- Gar Tagu Risum (Wylie: mgar sta gu ri sum)
- Gar Tsenyen Gungton (Wylie: mgar btsan nyan gung rton)
References
Gar Tongtsen Yulsung Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA