Person
Songtsen Gampo
Also called: Srong-btsan sgam-po
King of the Tibetan Empire who united the Tibetan plateau in the early 7th century, made Lhasa his capital, married the Tang Princess Wencheng and introduced Buddhism and the Tibetan script
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Songtsen Gampo, who had united the Tibetan plateau, married the Tang Princess Wencheng in 641. He ruled from Lhasa and brought Buddhism and a Tibetan script to his realm.
Themes this person appears in
- Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979
From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model