page_title: Songtsen Gampo
section_title: As a kid
hierarchical_section_title: Songtsen Gampo / As a kid
caption_attribution_description: &lt;a href="http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=6180857891&amp;size=large" rel="nofollow"&gt;View On Black&lt;/a&gt;Recently I have been to Songtsen Library(dehradun,India)..Saw this Statue of King Songtsen Gampo on horseback in front of the Library ...According to them this statue of King Songtsen Gampo (617 -650 AD) is believed to be an emanation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion. He is credited with bringing Buddhism to Tibet. The institution is named after the 33rd Tibetan King, Songtsen Gampo (617-650). The sculpture, executed by the Western nun Khenmo Drolma
context_page_description: Songtsen Gampo or Songzan Ganbu, was the 33rd Tibetan king and founder of the Tibetan Empire.
  He helped introduce Buddhism to Tibet. He had a Nepali wife named Bhrikuti and a Tang wife named Princess Wencheng. Both of them were Buddhists. He also helped invent the Tibetan alphabet and made Classical Tibetan the official language of Tibet at the time.
  He may have been born in 569 or 605. Tibet used their own calendar so we are still trying to figure it out.
context_section_description: Songtsen Gampo was born at Gyama in Meldro, northeast of modern Lhasa. His dad was the Yarlung king Namri Songtsen. The book The Holder of the White Lotus says Gampo was the human form (incarnation) of the Avalokiteśvara. Dalai Lamas are also thought to be human forms of the Avalokitesvara. In the 11th century, Buddhists started calling him a cakravartin and incarnation of Avalokiteśvara.
caption: Statue of King Songtsen Gampo on horseback in front of the Songtsen Library in Dehradun, India.
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