Drigum Tsenpo was an emperor of Tibet. According to Tibetan mythology, he was the first king of Tibet to lose his immortality when he angered his stable master, Lo-ngam. Legend states that rulers of Tibet descended from heaven to earth on a cord, and that they were pulled back up when their time came. Lo-gnam cut the cord, leading to Drigum Tsenpo's death; he thus became the first Tibetan ruler to be buried on earth.
There is a detailed, if rather fabulous, account of his life in the Old Tibetan Chronicle.[1]
^Bacot, Thomas and Touissant (1940-1946), pp. 123-128. In French.
DrigumTsenpo was an emperor of Tibet. According to Tibetan mythology, he was the first king of Tibet to lose his immortality when he angered his stable...
present-day Bomê County, Tibet. The monarchs of Powo were descendants of DrigumTsenpo, and used the title Kanam Gyalpo (kaH gnam rgyal po) or Kanam Depa (kaH...
Yarlung king, DrigumTsenpo, attempted to remove the influence of the Zhang Zhung by expelling the Zhang's Bön priests from Yarlung. Tsenpo was assassinated...
as 'emperor' of Tibet. Traditional Tibetan titles for the king include tsenpo ("Chief") and lhase ("Divine Son"). In the list the common transliteration...
blame of the decline of Bon on two persecutions by two Tibetan kings, DrigumTsenpo and the Buddhist King Tri Songdetsen (r. 740–797). They also state that...
neighboring kingdom arose in the Yarlung valley, and the Yarlung king, DrigumTsenpo, attempted to remove the influence of the Zhang Zhung by expelling the...
of the first emperor Nyatri Tsenpo (gNya'-khri bTsan-po) from heaven, and ends with an account of the death of DrigumTsenpo, the first mortal in the line...
ruled present day Bomê County, annexed by Tibet in 1928. Descendants of DrigumTsenpo. Chiefdom of Zhuoni (Tibetan: ཅོ་ནེ་དཔོན་པོ, Wylie: co ne dpon po; Chinese:...
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