The Ancient World in Minutes by Phillips Charles

Author:Phillips, Charles [Phillips, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2018-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Tibet

224 INDIA

Tibet was unified in the 7th century under King Srong-brtsan-sgampo (c.617–650), who married Buddhist wives from Nepal and China and established Buddhism in his country. Under their influence, he built the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa – today the most sacred place for Tibetan Buddhism – and installed a Nepalese image of Gautama Buddha there. Tibet’s written history begins in his reign, since a Tibetan script was developed from an Indian forerunner at his court. The key texts of Buddhism were translated into this new script.

Srong-brtsan-sgampo expanded and consolidated an empire, which had been established by his father Gnam-ri-srong-brtsan (c.570–c.619), to include Nepal and areas of the Chinese border, and then invaded northern India. In the next century, Buddhism was strengthened in Tibet when King Khri-srong-ide-brtsan (r.755–797) invited Buddhists from China and India, including Indian monk Shantarakshita, abbot of Nalanda in the Magadha kingdom. He founded the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet.

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