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Zhangzhung or
Shangshung was an
ancient kingdom in
western and
northwestern Tibet,
existing from
about 500 BCE to 625 CE, pre-dating
Tibetan Buddhism....
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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...
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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...
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Gudri Zingpoje (Dgu-gri Zing-po-rje), who was, in turn, a v****al of the
Zhangzhung empire under the Lig myi dynasty. The
group prevailed against Zingpoje...
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Byangsi Dhuleli Chaudangsi Rangas (extinct
early 20th century)
Zhangzhung Zhangzhung, the
sacred language of the Bon religion, was
spoken north of the...
- 2023. Nagano, Yasuhiko; LaPolla,
Randy J., eds. (2001). New
research on
Zhangzhung and
related Himalayan languages. Bon studies. Vol. 3. Osaka: National...
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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...
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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)...
