Lang Darma

Lang Darma ( Tibetan: གླང་དར་མ་, Wylie: Glang represents ma) was the last Tsenpo ( Tib: btsan po), now a standard as usually called king of Tibet, and there was about 836-842, according to other sources of 841 to 846 In the literature there are sources, according to which he had reigned one and a half years, while others enter the reign of six to 13 years. With the massive persecution of Buddhism and the rolling back in his monastic form incipient in his reign ended the decline of Yarlung Empire and thus the former Tibetan empire. Lang Darma himself is finally out of the disguised as Bon priests Pelgyi of Lhalung Dorje (Tibetan: lha ment dpal gyi rdo rje ), one of the 25 disciples of Padmasambhava, have been murdered.

Before long Darma his Buddhist brother Relpachen ( Tib: khri ral pa can) had held the throne and introduced reforms that severely curtailed the power of the Tibetan gentry and had brought the Buddhist monasteries in the long run decisive influence in the regions of Tibet. These reforms had led to Relpachen already had been murdered.

In the history of science doubts about the strict anti-Buddhist attitude Lang Darma have been raised.

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