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Mutik Tsenpo

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Reign
  
799

Name
  
Mutik Tsenpo

Father
  
Trisong Detsen

Grandparents
  
Me Agtsom

Great Minister
  
Dro Trisu Ramsha

Predecessor
  
Mune Tsenpo

Died
  
ca. 799?

Successor
  
Sadnalegs


Burial
  
'skya-ri-ldem, pying-bar (mordern Qonggyai County)

Mother
  
Tsepangsa Magyal Dongkar

Parents
  
Trisong Detsen, Magyal Dongkar

People also search for
  
Mune Tsenpo, Trisong Detsen, Sadnalegs, Me Agtsom

Great-grandparents
  
Tridu Songtsen

Mutik Tsenpo or Murug Tsenpo (Tibetan: མུ་ཏིག་བཙན་པོ་, Wylie: Mu-tig btsan-po; Mu-rug-brtsan) is sometimes considered to have been one of the emperors of Tibet. This is, however, very questionable. Moreover, the whole period between the reigns of Trisong Detsen and Sadnalegs is very unclear, with several conflicting reports.

Trisong Detsen is said to have had four sons: Mutri Tsenpo, Muné Tsenpo, Mutik Tsenpo, and Sadnalegs. The eldest son, Mutri Tsenpo, died early.

Muné Tsenpo is said to have taken power when his father, Trisong Detsen retired (probably around 797 CE). After a short reign, Muné Tsenpo, was supposedly poisoned on the orders of his mother, Tsephongsa, who was jealous of his beautiful young wife, Queen Phoyongsa. After his death, Mutik Tsenpo was next in line to the throne.

Several sources, however, claim that Mutik Tsenpo murdered a senior minister and was exiled to Lhodak Kharchu (lHo-brag or Lhodrag), near the Bhutanese border in the south, so the throne was taken by Sadnalegs instead.

Some sources say that Mutik Tsenpo was later killed by members of sNa-nam clan, but this couldn't have happened until after Sadnalegs became king, as Sadnalegs mentions in an inscription at Zhwa'i-lha-khang that he took power from his father, that one of his brothers had died, and that he bound his elder brother, Mur-rug-brtsan, with an oath.

Reincarnation

Orgyen Lingpa (1323 – 1360) was said to be his seventh incarnarnation.

References

Mutik Tsenpo Wikipedia