Tibetan expedition to China 754

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In 754, the Tibetan King Thride Tsugten (704–755) sent a group of five people on a journey through Buddhist scriptures to the court of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty in Chang'an , the largest city in the world at the time.

Its leader was Sangshi , the son of bathu , a former senior official at the Tang court, who is said to have come to Tibet to accompany Princess Jincheng .

The Tang Emperor gave them a thousand volumes of writings in gold letters on blue paper.

Then they paid a visit to monk Nima , who lived near the Wutai in Shanxi , to ask for scriptures. The monk gave them the three scriptures Shishan fajing , Nengduan jingang bore boluomiduo jing and Foshuo daogan jing and said that if they gave these scriptures to the king in that order, the king would adhere to Buddhism.

During Sangshi's return journey to Tibet with all the scriptures, however, Thride Tsugten fell from his horse and died in Gyama Thrikhang ( Rgya-ma-khri-khang ).

Because the young successor could not assert himself against the anti-Buddhist forces, they had to hide the writings from China in the rock caves of Samye Chimphu and send the Chinese monks they had brought back to China.

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  • Zangzu da cidian . Lanzhou 2003 (Sangxi)

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Tib. Btsan po
  2. ↑ T. khri lde gtsug brtan ཁྲི་ ལྡེ་ གཙུག་ བརྟན་
  3. ↑ Tib. Sang-shi ; Chinese Sangxi (in the spelling 桑 喜 / 桑希 / 桑西), cf. Sangxi ( Memento of March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and Sangxi .
  4. ↑ Chinese bathwater 巴德 武
  5. ↑ Chinese Jincheng gongzhu 金城 公主
  6. ↑ Tib. Nyi ma ; chin. heshang Nima 和尚 尼玛
  7. ↑ Chinese 十善 法 经; tib. dge ba bcu
  8. ↑ Chinese 能 断 金刚 般若 波罗蜜 多 经; the Vajraccheddika Prajnaparamita Sutra ( Diamond Sutra ), cf. Ernest J. Eitel: Handbook of Chinese Buddhism being Sanskrit-Chinese dictionary
  9. ↑ Chinese 佛说 稻秆 经, the S'alisambhava Sutra , cf. Ernest J. Eitel: Handbook of Chinese Buddhism being Sanskrit-Chinese dictionary & S'alisambhava Sutra
  10. ↑ According to Dungkar Lobsang Thrinle , pp. 10-11 (This version of the event there according to " The Records of the Bsam-yas Monastery , Religious History of Yar-lung and Religious History of Lho-brag ", in contrast to the inscription on the above stone monument erected at Potala Palace , after which he was murdered by his ministers ' Bal-stong-tshab and Glang-me-gzig .)
  11. ↑ Thrisong Detsen
  12. ↑ Tib. Bsam yas mchims phu ; Chinese Sangye Qinpu; see. Keith Dowman: The power-places of Central Tibet: the pilgrim's guide (Samye Chimpu)
  13. ↑ Zangzu da cidian , p. 618 (Sangxi).