Mashang Drompakye

Mashang Drompakye
Tibetan name
Tibetan མ་ཞང་གྲོམ་པ་སྐྱེས

Mashang Drompakye (Tibetan: མ་ཞང་གྲོམ་པ་སྐྱེས , ? ?) was a nobleman and minister of Tibetan Empire.

After the young price Trisong Detsen succeeded, Mashang served as the regent. According to A Scholar's Feast, he was a follower of Bon and opponent of Buddhism. During his regency period, Buddhism was banned, Buddharupa were buried into ground or sent to mang yul (mordern Bhutan).

Trisong Detsen converted to Buddhism secretly when he was 20 years old, but he was afraid of Mashang. Later, Mashang was murdered by Gos Trisang Yalag, whom was a confidant of the young emperor. Finally, the young emperor promoted Buddhism.

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