Thundering Falcon

Per K. Sørensen

Thundering Falcon is the second of two significant ethno-historical studies of the Yarlung region and neighboring valleys of Central Tibet by the research team of Per K. Sørensen, Guntram Hazod, and Tsering Gyalbo. The first work in the series, Civilization at the Foot of Mount Sham-po (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2000), focused on the local history of Upper Yar. In this companion study, Thundering Falcon, Sørensen, Hazod, and Gyalbo turn their attention to the Lower Yarlung region, long acknowledged as the cradle of Tibetan civilization. As an entry point into the rich history of this area, the authors concentrate on the royal shrine of Trandruk or “Thundering Falcon,” Tibet’s oldest Buddhist temple. Tandruk (Khra ’brug) was built in the seventh century during the reign of King Songtsen Gampo (d. 649) as the first of several “border-suppressing”...

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