Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje

Lhalung Palgyi Dorje (Standard Tibetan: ལྷ་ལུང་དཔལ་གྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ། Wylie: lha lung dpal gyi rdo rje) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk who assassinated the Tibetan king Langdarma in 842 CE.

Lhalung Palgyi Dorje

Palgyi Dorje was Padmasambhava's student. According to Tibetan tradition, King Langdarma persecuted Buddhism in Tibet. To end this persecution, Pelgyi Dorje traveled to the King's palace, where he surprised the King and killed him with a bow and arrow. Escaping by turning his black cloak inside out to show its white lining and riding his white horse into the river to wash off the charcoal with which he had made it appear black,[1] he then fled to Amdo (Qinghai) or Yerpa, where he lived out the rest of his life as a recluse.

The assassination story is mentioned in several sources and regarded as a historical fact.[2]

References

Jimenez, Larry (April 20, 2015). "10 Rogue Buddhists Who Went Overboard With Violence: 9. Assassination Of King Langdarma". Listverse. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
Mandelbaum, Arthur (August 2007). "Lhalung Palgyi Dorje". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-19.

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[1] Jimenez, Larry (April 20, 2015). "10 Rogue Buddhists Who Went Overboard With Violence: 9. Assassination Of King Langdarma". Listverse. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

[2] Mandelbaum, Arthur (August 2007). "Lhalung Palgyi Dorje". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-19.