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trials ended here. When it was fully settled that the princess should go to 
Tibet, she addressed the king, “ Sire, as it has pleased your Imperial Majesty 
to send me to Bod, a country where there is no religion, I pray that you will 
allow me to take with me the great image of Buddha, and several volumes of 
Buddhist scriptures, besides a few treatises on medicine and astrology.” The 
king accordingly granted her prayer and gave them as parts of her dowry. 
Hearing that Tibet was a very poor country, he sent with the princess 
heaps of gold and silver for her use in Tibet. The union of the incarna¬ 
tion of Ohenressig in Sron-tsan, and of the two incarnations of the divine 
mothers (Tara) in the persons of the two princesses produced great joy and 
happiness in the palace of Yumbu-lagaii. The two princesses, come from 
two great centres of Buddhism, viz., China and Nepal, jointly exerted their 
influence for the propagation of Buddhism. First of all they converted the 
king whose inclination to it was so remarkably manifested in his adopting 
the moral tenets obtained by Thon-mi Sambhota from India. The country 
of Tibet being situated in the centre of the four great continents, like the 
heaving breast of a Srin-mo, 33 the king thought of making it the fountain 
of religion by filling it with monasteries. He erected one hundred and eight 
temples—four in the suburbs of his capital, four in its centre, four at the four 
corners of his kingdom, and so on. At the age of twenty-three he erected the 
two great temples called Rimochhe and Lhasa Prul nan ki Tsug-la khan 33 and 
dedicated them to the two images of Akshobhya and S'akya respectively. Thus 
in the year 639 A. D. king Sron-tsan Gampo founded Lhasa the renowned 
capital of Tibet. The hill called Chagpori being considered as the heart of the 
country, the king erected his new palace upon it. At the age of twenty-five 
he sent his ministers to North China to erect 108 chapels at Ile-vo-tse-na, 
the chosen residence of Manjusri towards the north of Pekin. He invited 
the great Pandits Kusara and S'ankara Brahmana from India, Pandit SI la 
Manju from Nepal, and Hwa-Shan Maha-tshe from China, Sambhota, Lha-lun 
dorje pal and other translators, for the great work of translation of the 
Buddhist scriptures from the Sanskrit and Chinese originals, in the newly 
formed written language of Tibet. The king had no children by the two 
princesses, in consequence of which he was obliged to marry two more prin¬ 
cesses from Bu-yon and Mon, named Je-Tki kar and Thi-Cham. The 
latter gave birth to a prince named Gun-ri-gun-tsan, and the former to Man- 
Sron Man-tsan. When Gunri reached the thirteenth year of his age, the king 
abdicating the throne in his favour, retired into solitude to pass his days in 
meditation, but unfortunately the prince died at the age of eighteen when 
32 Amazonian woman. 
38 I liasa the temple of gods from which the capital of 
Tibet derived its name Lhasa, and ^Tsuglag-Khan is Kutagara or a shrine. 
