Trisong Detsän (Tibetan: ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་; Wylie: Khri-srong Lde-btsan; ZWPY: Chisong Dêzän) was the 38th King of Tibet, ruling from 755 until 797. He is important to Tibetan Buddhists as one of the three Dharma Kings who brought Buddhism to Tibet. According to tradition, Trisong Detsen invited the great Indian gurus, Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava, to Tibet to teach the dharma, thereby first initiating what would later be recognized as Tibetan Buddhism. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language typewriter. ... The Peoples Republic of Chinas Tibetan Pinyin (Chinese: ; pinyin: Zàngwén PÄ«nyÄ«n; Tibetan: བོད་ཡིག་གི་སྒྲ་སྦྱོར་) is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in China. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Events Abd-ar-rahman I lands in Spain, where the next year he will establish a new Umayyad dynasty. ... Events July 17 - Irene orders her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI captured and deposed August 15 - Irenes orders are accomplished; her son is blinded, and herself declared emperor the next day. ... Tibetan Buddhism, (formerly also called Lamaism after their religious gurus known as lamas), is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and the Himalayan region. ... A replica of an ancient statue of Gautama Buddha, found in Sarnath, near Varanasi. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Guru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Shantarakshita was an Indian sage, abbot of Nalanda University, a great center of Buddhist scholarship. ... Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu Padmasambhava (also Padmakara or Padma Raja) (Ch: 蓮華生上師; Tib: Padma Jungne), in Sanskrit meaning lotus-born, founded the Tibetan or Tantric school of Buddhism in the 8th century. ... Dharma (Sanskrit धर्म) or Dhamma (Pāli) means Natural Law or Reality, and with respect to its significance for spirituality and religion might be considered the Way of the Higher Truths. ...

Trisong Detsän inherited an empire which had declined somewhat from its greatest extent under King Songtsen Gampo. In 694 Tibet lost control of several cities in Turkestan and in 703 Nepal broke into rebellion. Arab forces vied for influence in along the western border lands. A statue of Emperor Srong-rtsan Sgam-po in his meditation cave at Yerpa Songtsen Gampo (སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ་ Wylie: Srong-btsan Sgam-po) (604–650 CE) was the thirty-third king of the Yarlung Dynasty of Tibet. ... Events November 9 - Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems, and sentences all Jews to slavery. ... Map of Turkestan (green) with borders of modern states in white Turkestan (Persian: ترکستان ) (also spelled Turkistan or Türkistan) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people. ... Events Births Deaths Empress Jito of Japan In Other Fields 703 is the area code for telephone numbers in the Northern Virginia region of the United States. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب) are a heterogenous ethnic group who are predominantly speakers of the Arabic language, mainly found throughout the Middle East and North Africa. ...

Trisong became emperor in 755 and in post imperial sources is claimed to have invited Padmasambhava, Shantarakshita, Vimalamitra, and various other Indian teachers to come to Tibet to spread the latest understanding of the teaching. The two pandits began by establishing Samye Monastery as the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. Several Tibetans were eventually initiated as monks and a vast translation project was undertaken translating the Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan. Events Abd-ar-rahman I lands in Spain, where the next year he will establish a new Umayyad dynasty. ... Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu Padmasambhava (also Padmakara or Padma Raja) (Ch: 蓮華生上師; Tib: Padma Jungne), in Sanskrit meaning lotus-born, founded the Tibetan or Tantric school of Buddhism in the 8th century. ... Shantarakshita was an Indian sage, abbot of Nalanda University, a great center of Buddhist scholarship. ... The main building of the Samye Monastery The Samye Monastery or Samye Gompa is the first Buddhist monastery built in Tibet, constructed in approximately 775 AD under the patronage of King Trisong Detsen of Tibet who sought to revitalize Buddhism which had declined since its introduction by King Songtsen Gampo... The Sanskrit language ( , ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 22 official languages of India. ... The Tibetan language is spoken primarily by the Tibetan people who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, as well as by large number of Tibetan refugees all over the world. ...

In a famous two year debate later in his reign (792-794), Trisong Detsen pitted the Chinese Buddhist monk Mo-ho-yen against Kamalashila, who was a student of Shantarakshita. The Hoshang school (which much later would generate the Japanese Zen school) held that enlightenment could be attained instantly. Kamalashila argued that while the actual attainment of enlightenment occurs in an instant, the process leading up to this point is a gradual one, insisting that only after extensive moral and mental training under a master could enlightenment be attained. Kamalashila's role was to ordain Tibetans as Buddhist monks and propagate Buddhist philosophy as it had flourished in India. Ultimately the King sided with Kamalashila and afterwards established the Indian view of Buddhism, as initially put fourth by Shantarakshita, as the correct interpretation of Buddhist philosophical texts. Mo-ho-yen (Traditional Chinese: 摩訶衍; Pinyin: Móhēyǎn) was a Chinese Buddhist monk active in the late 8th century CE. After teaching in the area of Dunhuang he was invited by King Trisong Detsen of Tibet to settle at Samye Monastery. ... Shantarakshita was an Indian sage, abbot of Nalanda University, a great center of Buddhist scholarship. ... Zen is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that places great importance on moment-by-moment awareness and seeing deeply into the nature of things by direct experience. ... Shantarakshita was an Indian sage, abbot of Nalanda University, a great center of Buddhist scholarship. ...

The role of Padmasambhava on the other hand was to establish the teaching of Buddhist Tantra in Tibet. During the reign of Trisong Detsän the conbined efforts of Padmasambhava, Shantarakshita and Kamalashila established both the Indian Buddhist philosophical interpretation and Buddhist tantra in Tibet. Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu Padmasambhava (also Padmakara or Padma Raja) (Ch: 蓮華生上師; Tib: Padma Jungne), in Sanskrit meaning lotus-born, founded the Tibetan or Tantric school of Buddhism in the 8th century. ... Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu Padmasambhava (also Padmakara or Padma Raja) (Ch: 蓮華生上師; Tib: Padma Jungne), in Sanskrit meaning lotus-born, founded the Tibetan or Tantric school of Buddhism in the 8th century. ... Shantarakshita was an Indian sage, abbot of Nalanda University, a great center of Buddhist scholarship. ...

In 763 Trisong Detsän responded to Chinese pressure from the north by sending an army of 200,000 men to the border, defeating the forces there and then continuing on to take Chang'an, the Chinese capital, forcing the Emperor to flee the capital. In 783 a peace treaty was negotiated between China and Tibet giving Tibet all lands in the Kokonor region. Events Ciniod succeeds Bridei V as king of the Picts. ... Changan â–¶(?) (Simplified Chinese: 长安; Traditional Chinese: 長安; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chang-an) is the ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in China. ... Events Births Deaths July 12: Bertrada, wife of Pippin III Categories: 783 ... Kokonor Is an alternative name of Qinghai province in China. ...

The King also formed an alliance with King Imobsun of Siam in 778, joining forces to attack the Chinese in Sichuan. For the country formerly called Siam see Thailand SIAM is an acronym for Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ... Events Charlemagne fights the Moors in Spain. ... (Chinese: 四川; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; Postal Pinyin: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ...

Trisong Detsän next sought to expand westward, reaching the Oxus River and threatening the Arab Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. The Caliph was concerned enough to establish an alliance with the Chinese emperor, and perhaps this alone prevented Tibet from taking control of the Middle East and points beyond. Through the remainder of his reign the King would be preoccupied with Arab wars in the west, taking pressure off his Chinese opponents to the east and north, until his rule ended in 797. The Amu Darya (in Persian آمودریا; Darya means river in Persian) rises in the Pamirs and flows mainly north-west through the Hindu Kush, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to join the Aral Sea in a large river delta. ... Caliph is the title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ... Persian miniature depicting HārÅ«n ar-RashÄ«d. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Events July 17 - Irene orders her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI captured and deposed August 15 - Irenes orders are accomplished; her son is blinded, and herself declared emperor the next day. ...