| Title | Lönpo Garchen / བློན་པོ་མགར་ཆེན། / 大臣噶尔东赞 |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Bendi Tso (author) |
| Marnyi Gyatso (author) | |
| Naljor Tsering (author) | |
| Mark Turin(author) | |
| Members of the Choné Tibetan Community (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0312.07 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0312/chapters/10.11647/obp.0312.07 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Bendi Tso, Marnyi Gyatso, Naljor Tsering and Mark Turin acting as Trustees for the Members of the Choné Tibetan Community |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2023-10-04 |
| Long abstract | ‘Lönpo Garchen’ provides a unique description of the most famous marriage in Tibetan history. With major characters and their relations with Buddhism introduced, this chapter illustrates how Songtsen Gampo’s Minister, Gar Tongtsen, trekked to Tang China, triumphed over the envoys of other rulers in competitions to woo Princess Wencheng, and used his wisdom to escape from the Tang capital to Lhasa. Additionally, this chapter contains valuable Tibetan historical, cultural, and religious knowledge. |
| Page range | pp. 609–702 |
| Print length | 94 pages |
| Language | Chinese (Original) |
| English (Original) | |
| Tibetan (Original) |
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| https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0312/chapters/10.11647/obp.0312.07 | Landing page | https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0312.07.pdf | Full text URL | Publisher Website |
Bendi Tso is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include oral tradition documentation, Indigenous knowledge mobilization, and linguistic and cultural identities on the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Her work has been published in Book 2.0 and two peer-reviewed edited volumes.
Marnyi Gyatso is a historian of empires and frontiers in East Asia. He is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Council on East Asian Studies of Yale University. His research focuses on the interaction and exchange between China and Inner Asia from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. He is currently working on a book project that examines China’s transition from empire to nation-state in Inner Asia between 1862 and 1962. He is also editing a book that explores how different ethnic groups along the rivers of the eastern Tibetan Plateau have adapted to, negotiated with, transformed, and interpreted their natural surroundings.
Naljor Tsering is a Ph.D. student at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. His research interests include early tantric ritual of the Tibetan Bon religion. His forthcoming Ph.D. thesis is entitled ‘dBal Chu: A Study of the Texts and Performance of a Ritual in the Cycle of the Bon Divinity Gekhod.’ He currently participates in two projects: Protecting the Kingdom with Tibetan Manuscripts: Codicological and Historical Analysis of the Royal Drangsong Collection from Mustang, Nepal, and Tibetan Social History and Archives Research in rGyal rong (Jia rong) of Sichuan, China. He has been involved in translating and editing four books.
Mark Turin is an anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio presenter, and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His research area is ethnolinguistic, language endangerment, linguistic diversity, visual anthropology, digital archives, and field methodology. His numerous publications appeared in Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology, Language in Society, Museum Anthropology, Oral Tradition, among other journals, as well as in many edited volumes. He is the author or co-author of four books, three travel guides, the editor of nine volume, and he edits the World Oral Literature Series with Open Book Publishers.