Trisong Detsen () was the son of
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, the 37th
king of Tibet. As the 38th king, he ruled from AD 755 until 797. Trisong Detsen was the second of the Three
Dharma Kings
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of Tibet —
Songsten Gampo
Songtsen Gampo (Classical , pronounced ) (; (601–683 CE, reign 614-648) was the 33rd Tibetan king of the Yarlung dynasty and the founder of the Tibetan Empire. The first of three Dharma Kings of Tibet, he formally introduced Buddhism to Tib ...
, Trisong Detsen,
Rapalchen — honored for their pivotal roles in the introduction of
Buddhism
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to
Tibet
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and the establishment of the
Nyingma
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or "Ancient" school of
Tibetan Buddhism
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. ''Sowa Rigpa'' or
Traditional Tibetan medicine
Traditional Tibetan medicine or Sowa Rigpa is the Tibetan medical system developed in the 8th century under King Trisong Detsen that incorporated the best international medical practices of that time.Claude Arpi, ''Glimpses on the Tibet History' ...
was developed during his reign.
[
Trisong Detsen became one of Tibet's greatest kings during its empire era, and an unparalleled Buddhist benefactor to Guru Padmasambhava, to Khenpo Shantarakshita, to his court, and to the founding of the ]Vajrayana
''Vajrayāna'' (; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Mahāyāna Buddhism, Mahāyāna Buddhis ...
. By the end of his reign, he grew the extents of Tibet beyond their previous borders, reset the borders between Tibet and China in 783, and even occupied the capital of China at Chang'an
Chang'an (; zh, t=長安, s=长安, p=Cháng'ān, first=t) is the traditional name of the city now named Xi'an and was the capital of several Chinese dynasties, ranging from 202 BCE to 907 CE. The site has been inhabited since Neolithic time ...
, where he installed a king.[ Claude Arpi, ''Glimpses of the Tibet History'', Dharamsala: The Tibet Museum, 2016, Chapter 6, "A Great Military Empire"; Chapter 9, "Sowa Rigpa"]
This was a reverse to an earlier trend Trisong Detsen inherited whereby the empire briefly declined somewhat from its greatest extent under the first Dharma King, Songtsen Gampo
Songtsen Gampo (Classical , pronounced ) (; (601–683 CE, reign 614-648) was the 33rd Tibetan king of the Yarlung dynasty and the founder of the Tibetan Empire. The first of three Dharma Kings of Tibet, he formally introduced Buddhism to Tib ...
. Some disintegration continued when, in 694, Tibet lost control of several cities in Turkestan
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and in 703, kingdoms in Nepal
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broke into rebellion while Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
forces had vied for influence along the western borderlands of the Tibetan empire.
Trisong Detsen as Buddhist patron
Trisong Detsen is very important to the history of Tibetan Buddhism
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and is one of the three 'Dharma Kings' (Tibetan:''chö gyal'') who helped to established Buddhism
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in Tibet
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. The Three Dharma Kings were Songtsen Gampo
Songtsen Gampo (Classical , pronounced ) (; (601–683 CE, reign 614-648) was the 33rd Tibetan king of the Yarlung dynasty and the founder of the Tibetan Empire. The first of three Dharma Kings of Tibet, he formally introduced Buddhism to Tib ...
, Trisong Detsen, and Ralpachen
Tritsuk Detsen (), better known by his nickname Ralpachen () (c. 802 CE–838), was the 40th king of the Yarlung Dynasty of Tibet. He reigned after the death of his father, Sadnalegs, in c. 815, and grew the empire to its largest extent. He wa ...
.
The ''Kar-cun'' pillar erected by King Sadnalegs
Mutik Tsenpo the 39th king of Tibet had several names: formally ''Tridé Tsenpo'' (), and his nickname ''Sadnalegs'' (). He was the third and youngest son of King Trisong Detsen. He reigned between the disputed king of Tibet, Mune Tsenpo, and th ...
(r. c.800-815) says that during the reign of Trisong Detsen, "shrines of the Three Jewels
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were established by building temples at the centre and on the borders, Samye (''Bsam-yas'') in ''Brag-mar'' and so on".
Trisong Detsen became a king in 755, at the traditional young age of 13. His conversion to Buddhism took place in 762 at age 20. He invited Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava ('Born from a Lotus'), also known as Guru Rinpoche ('Precious Guru'), was a legendary tantric Buddhist Vajracharya, Vajra master from Oddiyana. who fully revealed the Vajrayana in Tibet, circa 8th – 9th centuries... He is consi ...
, Śāntarakṣita
(Sanskrit: शान्तरक्षित; , 725–788),stanford.eduŚāntarakṣita (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)/ref> whose name translates into English as "protected by the One who is at peace" was an important and influential In ...
, Vimalamitra
Vimalamitra () was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk. His teachers were Buddhaguhya, Jnanasutra, Jñānasūtra and Sri Singha, Śrī Siṃha. He was supposed to have vowed to take rebirth every hundred years, with the most notable figures bein ...
, and various other India
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n masters to come to Tibet and spread the latest understanding of the Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (),*
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's teachings. Padmasambhava tamed the obstructors and designed the plans while Santaraksita helped to construct Samye Monastery
Samye Monastery (, ), full name Samye Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang (Wylie: ''Bsam yas mi ’gyur lhun grub gtsug lag khang'') and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during ...
as the first monastery
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in Tibet.
Seven Tibetans were initiated as monks by Santaraksita in 779, some of whom reportedly consisted of former army members. This occurred while a vast translation project was being undertaken on the Buddhist scriptures and commentaries written in Pali
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and Sanskrit
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and translated into Classical Tibetan
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.
The Princess of Karchen became known as Yeshe Tsogyal
Yeshe Tsogyal (c. 757 or 777 – 817 CE), also known as "Victorious Ocean of Knowledge", "Knowledge Lake Empress" (, ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ), or by her Sanskrit name ''Jñānasāgarā'' "Knowledge Ocean", or by her clan na ...
, who was one of the wives of Trisong Detsen, and who became a great master after studying with Padmasambhava. She is considered to be the Mother of Buddhism. A daughter of the king, Princess Pema Sal Pema ( or ; ) is a Tibetan name meaning " lotus", which originated as a loanword from Sanskrit ''padma''. People who have this name as one of their given namesNote that Tibetan names generally do not have surnames. See e.g. include:
Buddhist teach ...
(c.758-766) died young but incarnated later as great Tertons, among them Longchenpa
Longchen Rabjam Drimé Özer (), or simply Longchenpa (1308–1364, "The Great One Who Is the Vast Cosmic Expanse") was a Tibetan scholar-yogi of the Nyingma school, the 'Old School' of Tibetan Buddhism. According to tibetologist David German ...
.
Chan Buddhism
Different from the Indo-Buddhist traditions that became the Vajrayana
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of Tibetan Buddhism
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embraced by Tibet and its king, were the Chinese Buddhist traditions. The first documented dissemination of Chan Buddhism
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to Tibet, chronicled in what has become known as the Chronicle of Ba (''Statements of the Sba Family''), occurred in about 761 when Trisong Detsen sent a party to the Yizhou region to receive the teachings of Kim Hwasang Kim Hwasang (), also known in Chinese as Wuxiang (, or Musang in , 684–762), was a Korean master of Chan Buddhism who lived in Sichuan, China, whose form of Chan teaching was independent of East Mountain Teaching and Huineng. His teachings were ...
, a Korean
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Chan master, who was encountered in Sichuan
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. The party received teachings and three Chinese texts from Kim, who died soon after.[Ray, Gary L.(2005). ''The Northern Ch'an School and Sudden Versus Gradual Enlightenment Debates in China and Tibet''. Source]
(accessed: December 2, 2007)
Trisong Detsen patronised a second party to China in 763. This second expedition was headed by a high minister, Ba Salsnan. There is scholarly dissent about whom Salsnan encountered in Yizhou. Early scholarship considered Kim, but this had been revised to Baotang Wuzhu
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(714-774), head and founder of Baotang Monastery in Chengdu
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. Both Kim and Baotang Wuzhu were of the same school of Chan, the East Mountain Teaching
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.
Debates
Tri Songdetsen, hosted a famous two-year debate from 792-794, known in Western scholarship as the "Council of Lhasa" (although it took place at Samye
Samye Monastery (, ), full name Samye Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang (Wylie: ''Bsam yas mi ’gyur lhun grub gtsug lag khang'') and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during ...
at quite a distance from Lhasa
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Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining ...
) outside the capital. He sponsored a Dharma
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debate between the Chan Buddhist
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Moheyan
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, who represented the third documented wave of Chan dissemination in Tibet, and the scholar Kamalaśīla
Kamalaśīla (Skt. Kamalaśīla; Tib. པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་, Pemé Ngang Tsul; Wyl. pad+ma'i ngang tshul) (c. 740-795) was an Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher of Nalanda Mahavihara. Notably he accompanied Śāntarakṣi ...
, a student of Śāntarakṣita
(Sanskrit: शान्तरक्षित; , 725–788),stanford.eduŚāntarakṣita (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)/ref> whose name translates into English as "protected by the One who is at peace" was an important and influential In ...
. Effectively the debate was between the Chinese and Indian Buddhist traditions as they were represented in Tibet.
Sources differ about both the nature of the debate as well as the victor. Stein (1972: p. 66-67) holds that Kamalaśīla disseminated a "gradualist approach" to enlightenment
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, consisting of purificatory sādhanā
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...
such as cultivating the pāramitā
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s. Kamalashila's role was to ordain Tibetans as Buddhist monks and propagate Buddhist philosophy as it had flourished in India. Stein (1972: p. 66-67) holds that Kamalaśīla was victorious in the debate and that Tri Songdetsen sided with Kamalaśīla.
Stupa construction
Tri Songdetsen is also traditionally associated with the construction of Boudhanath
Boudha Stupa (; Newari: खास्ति चैत्य); or Jarung Kashor (''Let it be done, Slip of the tongue'')(, ), also known as Khasti Chaitya or Khāsa Chaitya, is a stupa and major spiritual landmarkSamye Translations, "Boudha: The G ...
in the Kathmandu
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Valley in Nepal.
The role of Padmasambhava
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on the other hand was to establish the teaching of Buddhist Tantra
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in Tibet. During the reign of Tri Songdetsen the combined efforts of Padmasambhava, Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla established both the Indian Buddhist philosophical interpretation and Buddhist tantra in Tibet.
Political and military activities
In 763 Trisong Detsen sent an army of 200,000 men to the border with Tang China, defeating the forces there and then continuing on to take Chang'an
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, the Tang Chinese capital, forcing Emperor Daizong of Tang
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to flee the capital. In 783 a peace treaty was negotiated between China and Tibet giving Tibet all lands in present-day Qinghai
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.
The King also formed an alliance with Nanzhao
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in 778, joining forces to attack the Chinese in modern Sichuan
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.
Trisong Detsen next sought to expand westward, reaching the Amu Darya
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and threatening the Abbasid Caliph
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The family came ...
, Harun ar-Rashid
Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rāshīd (), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Hārūn al-Rāshīd (), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until ...
. The Caliph was concerned enough to establish an alliance with the Chinese emperor. Trisong Detsen would be preoccupied with Arab wars in the west while taking pressure off his Chinese opponents to the east and north until his rule ended in 797.
Retirement, death and succession
Trisong Detsen had three sons: Mutri, Muné Tsenpo
Muné Tsenpo () also known as ''Murub Tsenpo'' was the second son of King Trisong Detsen and the de-facto King of Tibet (r.797-799), from the Yarlung dynasty. Since his older brother died at a young age, Muné Tsenpo was enthroned when his fa ...
(also known as Murub), and Mutik Tsenpo (also known as Sadnalegs
Mutik Tsenpo the 39th king of Tibet had several names: formally ''Tridé Tsenpo'' (), and his nickname ''Sadnalegs'' (). He was the third and youngest son of King Trisong Detsen. He reigned between the disputed king of Tibet, Mune Tsenpo, and th ...
). The eldest son, Mutri Tsenpo, died early.
When Trisong Detsen retired in 797 to live at the palace at Zungkar and write dharma texts, he passed the throne to his second son, Muné Tsenpo
Muné Tsenpo () also known as ''Murub Tsenpo'' was the second son of King Trisong Detsen and the de-facto King of Tibet (r.797-799), from the Yarlung dynasty. Since his older brother died at a young age, Muné Tsenpo was enthroned when his fa ...
who achieved many spiritual and temporal objectives in his brief reign of a year and a half. The ''Testament of Ba
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'' states Muné Tsenpo insisted that his father's funeral be performed according to Buddhist rather than traditional rites.
It is said that Mune Tsenpo was poisoned by his mother, who was jealous of his beautiful wife.
The throne then passed to Mutik Tsenpo, whose sons included Ralpachen
Tritsuk Detsen (), better known by his nickname Ralpachen () (c. 802 CE–838), was the 40th king of the Yarlung Dynasty of Tibet. He reigned after the death of his father, Sadnalegs, in c. 815, and grew the empire to its largest extent. He wa ...
and Ü Dum Tsen. Tibetan sources and the ''Old Book of Tang
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'' agree that Mune Tsenpo had no heirs, and the throne was passed to the third brother, Mutik Tsenpo known as Sadnalegs, who was on the throne by 804 CE.[Shakabpa, Tsepon W. D. ''Tibet: A Political History'' (1967), p. 47. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.]
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