Songtsen Gampo
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Songtsen Gampo was the 33rd King of Tibet from 618 or 629 until his death in 650, and the founder of the Tibetan Empire. The first of the "Three Dharma Kings of Tibet", he formally introduced Buddhism
Statue of King Songtsen Gampo on horseback in front of the Songtsen Library in Dehradun, India
The Songtsen Library in Dehradun, India, collects, preserves and makes accessible ancient Tibetan and Himalayan religious, cultural and historical documents.
The burial mound of Songtsen Gampo surrounded by cultivated fields (Chyongye Valley, 1949)
Songtsen Gampo (center), Bhrikuti Devi of Nepal (left) and Princess Wencheng (right)
Princess Wencheng
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Princess Wencheng was a princess and member of a minor branch of the imperial clan of the Tang dynasty, who married King Songtsen Gampo of the Tibetan Empire in 641. She is also known by the name Gyas
Songtsen Gampo
…are his two foreign wives: the Nepali princess Bhrikuti ("the great lady, the Nepalese wife", Wylie: bal mo bza' khri btsun ma) as well as the Chinese Princess Wencheng ("Chinese Wife", Wylie: rgya mo bza'). Songtsen sponsored the building of two temples to house the images of Buddha brought by his Nepalese and Chinese…
Princess Wencheng
Ramoche Gonpa, Wencheng's legacy, built originally to house the statue Jowo Shakyamuni Rinpoche