Zhangzhung or Shangshung was an ancient kingdom in western and northwestern Tibet, existing from about 500 BCE to 625 CE, pre-dating Tibetan Buddhism....

Zhangzhung (Tibetan: ཞང་ཞུང་, Wylie: zhang zhung) is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was spoken in Zhangzhung in what is now western Tibet. It is...

in a kingdom called Zhangzhung, located around Mount Kailash in the Himalayas. Bonpos hold that Bon was brought first to Zhangzhung, and then to Tibet...

is 3,256 m (10,682 ft). Historically, the river was the centre of the Zhangzhung Kingdom until its fall in the 8th century AD. Sutlej is an antecedent...

Gudri Zingpoje (Dgu-gri Zing-po-rje), who was, in turn, a vassal of the Zhangzhung empire under the Lig myi dynasty. The group prevailed against Zingpoje...

Minyakza ("Western Xia wife", Wylie: mi nyag bza'), and a noble woman from Zhangzhung. Well-known even today are his two foreign wives: the Nepali princess...

Byangsi Dhuleli Chaudangsi Rangas (extinct early 20th century) Zhangzhung Zhangzhung, the sacred language of the Bon religion, was spoken north of the...

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western Tibet comprised Zhangzhung kingdom(s), which practised the Bon religion. Sandwiched between Kashmir and Zhangzhung, Ladakh is believed to have...

Marchen script was a Brahmic abugida which was used for writing the extinct Zhangzhung language. It was derived from the Tibetan script. As per McKay (2003)...

2023. Nagano, Yasuhiko; LaPolla, Randy J., eds. (2001). New research on Zhangzhung and related Himalayan languages. Bon studies. Vol. 3. Osaka: National...

SASANIAN EMPIRE ALCHON HUNS CHALU- KYAS LATER GUPTAS NORTH. ZHOU NORTH. QI ZHANGZHUNG CHEN BYZANTINE EMPIRE AVAR KHAGANATE TUYUHUN Khitans Paleo-Siberians Tungus...

territories of middle Zhangzhung and outer Zhangzhung. The dzong architecture of Dangnuoqiong was the center of middle Zhangzhung, it was located round...

suggestions have been put forward as to its meaning, it appears to be the Zhangzhung word "bodhisattva" (equivalent to Tibetan shégya sempa, Wylie: shes rgya...

region, and its teachings affected the Bon religion in the Kingdom of Zhangzhung. While some stories depict Buddhism in Tibet before this period, the religion...

Zhangzhung to a family of nomads. Tapihritsa's principal teacher was Dawa Gyaltsen. Tapihritsa was contemporaneous with Ligmincha, King of Zhangzhung...

Tibetan script in the 7th century. Tibetan texts refer to the kingdom of Zhangzhung (c. 500 BCE – 625 CE) as the precursor of later Tibetan kingdoms and the...

SASANIAN EMPIRE ALCHON HUNS CHALU- KYAS LATER GUPTAS NORTH. ZHOU NORTH. QI ZHANGZHUNG CHEN BYZANTINE EMPIRE AVAR KHAGANATE TUYUHUN Khitans Paleo-Siberians Tungus...

usually done to avoid division of property and provide financial security. Zhangzhung Kingdom (500 BC – AD 625) Yarlung Dynasty (?–618) (semi-mythological)...

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precursors of the Rajputs. South Asia 600 CE MORIS PANDYAS LICCHAVIS CHOLAS ZHANGZHUNG CHERAS SAMATATAS KAMARUPA VISHNU- KUNDINAS PALLAVAS ALUPAS NEZAKS ALCHONS...

EMPIRE NORTHERN WEI HYMYAR SOUTHERN QI Alchon Huns Nezaks TOCHA- RIANS ZHANGZHUNG FUNAN TUYUHUN GUPTA EMPIRE HEPHTHALITES ROURAN KHAGANATE Kyrgyzs Gaoju...

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mtshan) was a Dzogchen master who lived in the 8th century in the area of Zhangzhung. His body of work includes the Fivefold Teaching: Vision is mind. Mind...

city of the ancient Zhangzhung kingdom. Scholars and theorists hypothesize that Kyunglung may correspond to what the Zhangzhung people referred to as...

SASANIAN EMPIRE ALCHON HUNS CHALU- KYAS LATER GUPTAS NORTH. ZHOU NORTH. QI ZHANGZHUNG CHEN BYZANTINE EMPIRE AVAR KHAGANATE TUYUHUN Khitans Paleo-Siberians Tungus...

EMPIRE NORTHERN WEI HYMYAR SOUTHERN QI Alchon Huns Nezaks TOCHA- RIANS ZHANGZHUNG FUNAN TUYUHUN GUPTA EMPIRE HEPHTHALITES ROURAN KHAGANATE Kyrgyzs Gaoju...

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and the mountainous regions to the southwest. The western kingdom of Zhangzhung revolted soon after the death of King Mangsong Mangtsen (also known as...

Tibetan (Standard Tibetan) Amdo Tibetan Khams Tibetan Baima Tshangla Zhangzhung (extinct) Lolo–Burmese–Naxi Burmish Achang Chashan Bola Zaiwa Langsu Lashi...