Tibet Historica

Reopening the Case Against Lang Darma Tri Udum Tsenpo (khri ’u dum btsan po; r. 841–842), better known to posterity as Lang Darma, remains one of the most misunderstood figures in Tibetan history. The epithet itself is telling: lang (glang) in Tibetan means ox or bull, and the image of a horned, devil-like beast was…