Trisong Detsen
Trisong Detsen (704? - 797), (reign 740 or 755 according to the sources - 797) is the 5th successor of Songtsen Gampo and the sovereign 38e of the dynasty Yarlung or Chögyal. It is known as the king who definitively established the Bouddhisme with the Tibet by inviting there Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava and by issuing the Bouddhisme religion of State.
Its reign marks the apogee of the military power Tibetan. Its riders of the high plateaus invade the Chinese capital of Chang' year in 763. The Chinese emperor Daizong of the Dynastie Tang being itself flees, the Tibetans name a new emperor. This victory was preserved for the posterity in the Zhol Doring (stone pillar) with Lhassa. One reads there:
“King Trisong Detsen is a wise and deep man. The quality of its advisers is recognized, and what it does for the kingdom is successful perfectly. He conquered and holds in his capacity much of provinces and Chinese fortresses . The Chinese emperor, Hehu Ki Wang (Daizong) and his ministers were terrified. They offered a perpetual annual tribute of 50.000 rollers of silk and China was obliged to discharge some.”.
In 783, a peace treaty is negotiated between China and Tibet giving to this last all the grounds of the area of the Kokonor. The king also forms an alliance with the king Imobsun of the Siam in 778, uniting their forces to attack the Chinese with the Sichuan.
However, these victories having had transitory consequences, it is especially for its action determined in favor it Buddhism that its memory reached us. It is indeed under its reign that was founded in 779 by Padmasambhava Samye, first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. Surrounded by Padmasambhava, of Yeshe Tsogyal, wives royal become Parèdre (mystical wife) of Padmasambhava, Shantarakshita and Vimalamitra, as well as many translators whose Vairocana, Trisong Detsen declared in 792 Buddhism religion of State. Except for an interruption with the 9th century preceding by little the second period of translation of the Indian Buddhist gun of the Sanskrit in Tibetan and the appearance of new Buddhist schools to the Country of Snows, Buddhism remained religion of State until the middle of the 20th century.
See too
List of the emperors of Tibet | History of Tibet | Samye | Padmasambhava
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