Gar Tongtsen

Gar Tongtsen Yulsung
Gar Tongtsen Yulsung
Tibetan name
Tibetan	མགར་སྟོང་བཙན་ཡུལ་སྲུང
Transcriptions Wylie mgar stong btsan yul srung THL gar tong tsen yül sung

Gar Tongtsen Yulsung (Tibetan: མགར་སྟོང་བཙན་ཡུལ་སྲུང༌།, Wylie: mgar stong btsan yul srung, 590-667) was a general of the Tibetan Empire who served as Great Minister (Tibetan: བློན་ཆེན་, THL: lönchen) during the reign of Songtsen Gampo. In many Chinese records, his name was given as Lù Dōngzàn (Chinese: 祿東贊) or Lùn Dōngzàn (Chinese: 論東贊); both are attempts to transliterate the short form of his title and name, Lön Tongtsen.

Gar Tongtsen had five sons, all of them were famous Tibetan generals: