Drigum Tsenpo was the 8th
king of Tibet. According to
Tibetan mythology
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, he was the first king of
Tibet
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to lose his
immortality
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From at least the time of the Ancient Mesopotamian religion, ancient Mesopotamians, there has been a con ...
when he angered his stable master,
Lo-ngam. Legend states that rulers of Tibet descended from
heaven
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to
earth
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on a
cord, and that they were pulled back up when their time came. Lo-gnam cut the cord, leading to Drigum Tsenpo's death; he thus became the first Tibetan ruler to be
buried on earth.
There is a detailed, if rather fabulous, account of his life in the ''
Old Tibetan Chronicle''.
[Bacot, Thomas and Touissant (1940-1946), pp. 123-128. In French.]
Footnotes
References
* Bacot, Thomas and Toussaint. (1940-1946). ''Documents de Touen-houang relatifs a l'histoire de Tibet''. J. Bacot, F. W. Thomas, Ch. Touissant. Paris. Libraire orientaliste Paul Geunther.
Emperors of Tibet
Tibetan people
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