Princess Wencheng
Chinese princess, Tibetan queen (628–680) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Wen Cheng" redirects here. For other uses, see Wencheng (disambiguation).
Princess Wencheng (Chinese: 文成公主; pinyin: Wénchéng Gōngzhǔ; Tibetan: མུན་ཆང་ཀོང་ཅོ, Wylie: mun chang kong co[4]) was a princess and member of a minor branch of the royal clan of the Tang dynasty, who married King Songtsen Gampo of the Tibetan Empire in 641.[2][5] She is also known by the name Gyasa or "Chinese wife" in Tibet.[6] Both Wencheng and Songtsen Gampo's first wife, Nepali princess Bhrikuti, are considered to be physical manifestations of the bodhisattvas White Tara and Green Tara respectively.[7]
Quick Facts Princess Wencheng 文成公主རྒྱ་མོ་བཟའ་མུན་ཆང་ཀོང་ཅོ, Queen consort of Tibet ...
Princess Wencheng 文成公主 རྒྱ་མོ་བཟའ་མུན་ཆང་ཀོང་ཅོ | |
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Queen consort of Tibet | |
Tenure | 641–680 or 682 alongside Bhrikuti, Rithigman, Shyalmotsun, Pogong Mangsa Tricham |
Born | 620[1] Tang China |
Died | 680 or 682[2] Lhasa, Tibetan Empire |
Husband | Songtsen Gampo |
House | House of Li House of Yarlung (by marriage) |
Father | Unknown, presumptively Li Daozong[3] |
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