Tengri Khan

Tengri Khan was the First Leader or Khan of the Tengri Tribe who ruled in 620 c. The name Tengri Khan was adopted by him when he was appointed Khan. His actual name is unknown, with no records of his name ever found. His name was given to the tribe he ruled, the "Tengri tribe". He was born near the beginning of the 7th Century, and was a Yarlung dynasty prince and the son of Namri Songtsen, the 32nd Emperor of the Tibetan Empire. However, he did not succeed his father directly; his older brother Songtsen Gampo was the first successor and the first founder of the Tibetan Empire in 618. Tengri Khan decided to leave on a journey to establish his own tribal kingdom, which was named the Tengri Khan tribe, the tribe that ruled the kingdom until their downfall. (620 - 945 c.)

Thirteen rulers and 325 years later, one of his descendants, Bodonchar Munkhag, the ancestor of Genghis Khan, founded the Borjigin Clan near the end of the 9th century.

Biography
Tengri Khan was born towards the end of the 6th century. He was the younger son of Tibetan Emperor Namri Songtsen, but his real name was shrouded in mystery. He was a Yarlung dynasty prince, and founded his own tribe, and adopted the title Tengri Khan. His father died when he was young, and his brother succeeded to the throne. His brother started the Tibetan kingdom and extended it beyond it borders, and he went on to start the Khan dynasty, the most infamous of whom is Genghis Khan.

= Ancestry = Tengri Khan was the 31st generation from the first King of Tibet, Nyatri Tsenpo, who founded the Yarlung dynasty in 127 B.C.E

= Religious = Tengri Khan traditionally followed Buddhism, as did his ancestors. His tribe was officially Buddhist.

Tribe created
He did not succeed his father. He finally settled in China's Eastern Turkic Khaganate empire in 618 c. He established the Tengri tribe. The name of the tribe derived from his own name, Tengri.

Descendants
his 12th generation after last Tengri Tribe ruler, Debun Mergen Khan, died in 945 c. and his tribe with him. But Debun, son of Bodonchar founded a new tribe named Borjigin in 900 c. One of his descendants was the famous Mongol conqueror Chenghis Khan, and from the Barlas Tribe Mongol conqueror Amir Timur.

= Death = After his Death in the 7th century his son Borte Chino Khan succeeded him.

= References =


 * 1) Japanese Agent in Tibet: My Ten Years of Travel in Disguise - Page 217, Missionary records mentioned the discovery of an isolated tribe speaking a Mongolian dialect in 1638, and I found a clan called the Tengri tribe living on the slopes of Mt. Tengri (tengri is Mongolian for 'blue sky'). By Hisao Kimura, Scott Berry
 * 2) The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East, Volume 13, Other Tengri Tagh tribes, known E, now tendered submission. In 662 the Western Turks attacked FH, which district was, in fact, the old territory once occupied by the tribe, previously described. In the year 666, another expedition under ... by 國家圖書館出版社, 1885 - China
 * 3) Introduction to the Science of Religion: Four Lectures Delivered at the ...Taic speech, 95 . of the departed worshipped 125 . among the Turanian tribes, 130. Tâif, temple of, 113: of nature worshipped among ... Spirit of Mongols called Tengri, tribes, 130. Tate Mukuru, 45 note. on 135 note. SEPTEMBER 1882 . By Friedrich Max Müller
 * 4) Hidden Tibet: History of Independence and Occupation Namri Songtsen (570–620) fought for the unification of Tibetans into a single state. The latter, according to legend, had a hundred thousand strong army, which reached north to the territory of the Turki and south into Central India. During ... By Sergius L. Kuzmin
 * 5) The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art Sometime at the end of the 6th or beginning of the 7th century, either under Namri Songtsen (? - ca. 629?) or his son Songtsen Gampo (r. 629-649?),* the valley state of Yarlung under the local kings asserted political control over V district. By John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel

= Sources =


 * 1) Kimura, Hisao; Berry, Scott (1990). Japanese Agent in Tibet: My Ten Years of Travel in Disguise. Serindia Publications, Inc. ISBN  978-0-906026-24-3.
 * 2) The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East. 國家圖書館出版社. 1885.
 * 3) Müller, Friedrich Max (1882). Introduction to the Science of Religion: Four Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution in February and May, 1870. Longmans, Green.
 * 4) Kuzmin, Sergius L. (2011-01-01). Hidden Tibet: History of Independence and Occupation. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. ISBN 978-93-80359-47-2.
 * 5) Huntington, John C.; Bangdel, Dina (2003). The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Serindia Publications, Inc. ISBN  978-1-932476-01-9.