Gar Tongtsen Yulsung | |||||||
Gar Tongtsen Yülsung
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Tibetan | མགར་སྟོང་བཙན་ཡུལ་སྲུང | ||||||
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Wylie | mgar stong btsan yul srung |
THDL | gar tong tsen yül sung |
Gar Tongtsen Yülsung (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 Songtsän 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: