Khyungpo Pungse
| Khyungpo Pungse Sutse | |||||||
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| Tibetan | ཁྱུང་པོ་སྤུང་སད་ཟུ་ཙེས་ | ||||||
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| Wylie | khyung po spung sad zu tses |
| THDL | khyung po büng sé zu tsé |
Khyungpo Pungse Sutse (Tibetan: ཁྱུང་པོ་སྤུང་སད་ཟུ་ཙེས་, Wylie: khyung po spung sad zu tses, ? – ?) was a general of the Tibetan Empire.
Born in Khyungpo (mordern Dêngqên and Biru in Kham). He killed his king and surrendered to the Tibet king Namri Songtsen. He was so witty that Namri Songtsen extremely trust him.
Pungse still served as high minister after Songtsen Gampo ascended the throne. At that time, the Tibetan king and the king of Zhangzhung had married each other's sisters in a political alliance. However, sad mar gar, one of Songtsen's sister who married the Zhangzhung king rig myi rhya, complained of poor treatment by the king's principal wife. Songtsen was angried, prepared to invade Zhangzhung, and let Pungse to predict the outcome. The oracle said it would be a major victory. Songtsen led a large number of troops invaded Zhangzhung in 642, many high ministers participated in the mission, including Khyungpo Pungse and Gar Tongtsen. After three years bloody war, Zhangzhung was finally conquered by Tibet, and Pungse was appointed as the governor of Zhangzhung.
The "Great Minister" (Tibetan: བློན་ཆེན, Wylie: blon chen), Nyang Mangpoje Shangnang, owned very high reputation in Tibet, Songtsen realised it could be a threat to the central authority of him. Pungse notified this, sowed discord among them. It was a successful conspiracy; Shangnang returned to his castle, and was considered as rebellion. Songtsen's troops occupied the castle, captured Shangnang and executed him.
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