Tibet In Vii - Viii V.

His heir, the young son of Gunggen, fell into the hands of dignitaries from the mighty clan of Gars, and when he died and tsengpo became the grandson of Songtsen Gampo Mangsong Mangtsen (638-676), the clan of Garov became the true master of the country. This clan was an opponent of Buddhism. From the middle of the VII century. For two hundred years, the struggle of supporters of the adoption of Buddhism and their opponents is becoming a decisive factor in the political and ideological life of the country.

Tsengpo sought to create a single and strong Tibetan state and advocated the preaching of a new faith, the representatives of the same noble Tibetan clans interested in weakening the central government were mainly supporters of the traditional Tibetan Bon religion.

In 654, for the administration of Tibet, a Council of Ministers and Governors was created, which was subordinate to the influence of the Gar clan. Since 655 the Tuyuhun state was completely conquered by the Tibetans, the last Tuyuhun ruler with the remains of his subjects took shelter in China, near the city of Lianzhou (Wuwei city in Gansu province).

In 670 Tibetan troops launched an offensive in the region of East Turkestan. Under the power of Tibet fell Tarim basin. After the death of Mangsong, Mangtsen-on the throne passed to his grandson Dyusong. All power was in the hands of the first minister from the clan of Gans Tsenya Denbu. Tibet was drawn into a protracted war with China. Tibet in the 7th - 8th centuries ...

By 680, the eastern borders of Tibet passed along the line of Liangzhou - Songzhou (Sun-pan) and Maozhou (Maoven, Sichuan Province) - Lake. Dali (provincial Yunnan), and the northern ones were in East Turkistan, where the Tibetans took possession of the modern cities of Kucha, Kashgar, Yarkand and Khotan. In 692, the Tang forces defeated the Tibetans in East Turkestan and repulsed the region of the four cities mentioned above. The Tibetans offered peace to China provided that the Chinese troops withdrew from Eastern Turkestan.

Knowing about the discord between tsengpo and dignitaries from the Gar family, China dragged out the negotiations. In 698, Dyusong really cut out the entire Garov clan, up to 2,000 people, but did not want peace, and in 700 Tibetan troops attacked Lianzhou. The campaign was unsuccessful. Dyusong suggested the world of Tang and asked the Chinese princess to be his wife. The uprisings in the southern and south-eastern regions of Tibet distracted him from affairs on the Chinese border, and in 704 Dyusong died in battle with the troops of Moso. His precentor tsentpo Tride Zugten was only seven years old. The regent, the grandmother of a cenghio, known in the history of Tibet, nicknamed Ma-egom (Sedovlasiy), asked the Chinese princess from the Thai court to marry her grandson.

Tibet in the VII - VIII century.