Magyal Dongkar
| Magyal Dongkar | |||||||
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| Tibetan | ཚེ་སྤང་བཟའ་རྨ་རྒྱལ་ལྡོང་སྐར | ||||||
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| Wylie | tshe-spang-bza' rma-rgyal-ldong-skar |
| THDL | tsé pang za ma gyel dong kar |
Tsepangsa Magyal Dongkar (Tibetan: རྨ་རྒྱལ་ལྡོང་སྐར, Wylie: rma-rgyal-ldong-skar, ? – ?) was an important Tibetan Empire female. She was empress of Trisong Detsen, the famous Dharma king. Unlike her husband, she was a follower of Bon.
She was born and raised in "Tsepang" clan. the "Tsepang" clan came from Zhangzhung, and was one of a most important supports of Bon.
Trisong Detsen was interested in Buddhism, he sent Vairotsana to India to study Vajrayana together with another four monks. They were ordered to propagate Buddhism after they returned to Lhasa. Many Tibetan nobles combined against them in the lead of the empress. According to Padma-thang-yig (Tibetan: པདྨ་ཐང་ཡིག), the empress said as below in the public place, and was supported by a majority of ministers:
The empress demanded Trisong Detsen to put the five monks to death. The emperor had no choice but to throw them into prison. The emperor arrested five beggers and had them executed, and put their bodies into five copper pots. The pots were thrown into Yarlung Tsangpo River in the public eye. Then the emperor told his ministers that the five monks were executed, while their real bodies were released secretly and hidden in the palace translating Tantras into Tibetan. The empress exposed this matter to ministers, Trisong Detsen had to exiled them to Rgyalrong (mordern Ngawa Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan).
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