Episode 7.4 - Songsten Gampo
/Songsten Gampo was the king of a small state in southern Tibet, which had only just begun to expand beyond its perhaps centuries-old domain. From this, he created a long-lasting Tibetan Empire, which ruled most of the Tibetan Plateau for centuries and, thanks in no small part to Songsten Gampo, became the center of Buddhism for perhaps the whole world.
Sources
Christopher I Beckwith, The Tibetan Empire in the Struggle for Central Asia
H.E. Richardson, Tibet and Its History
Tsepon Shakabpa, Tibet A Political History
Acharya Kirti Tulku Lobsang Tenzin and K. Dunlop, Early Relations Between Tibet and Nepal (7th and 8th Centuries)
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