What is Songtsen Gampo?
{{Infobox royalty|name=Songtsen Gampo|title=[[List of emperors of Tibet|Emperor]] of [[Tibetan Empire|Tibet]]|image=Songstengampo.jpg|caption=|reign=|coronation=|regnal name=Khri Songtsen Gampo|full name=Khri Songtsen Gampo|predecessor=[[Namri Songtsen]]|successor=[[Mangsong Mangtsen]]|father=[[Namri Songtsen]]|mother=Driza Tökarma|spouse=Pogong Mongza Tricham<br /> [[Bhrikuti]] (from [[Nepal]], [[Licchavi kingdom]])<br /> [[Princess Wencheng]] ([[Tang dynasty]])<br /> Mi-nyag-bza' Zhyal-mo-btsun ([[Tangut people|Tangut]])<br /> Ri-thig-man ([[Zhangzhung]])|issue=[[Gungsong Gungtsen]]|birth_name=Songtsen|birth_date=between 557 and 617|birth_place=[[Maizhokunggar County|Maizhokunggar]], [[Tibetan Empire|Tibet]]|death_date=649|death_place=''Zal-mo-sgang'', '''phun-yul'', Tibet (in modern [[Lhünzhub County]])|religion=Tibetan Buddhism}}'''Songtsen Gampo''' ([[Tibetan language|Tibetan]]: སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ, ''srong btsan sgam po;'' 569–649) or '''Songzan Ganbu''' ({{Lang-zh|t=松贊干布}}), was the 33rd [[Tibet]]an king and founder of the [[Tibetan Empire]].{{Efn|{{bo |t = བོད |w = '''bod'''}}; {{zh|t = 吐蕃 |w = T'u<sup>3</sup>-po<sup>1</sup>/T'u<sup>3</sup>-fan<sup>2</sup>|p=Tǔbō/Tǔfán}}}} He helped introduce [[Buddhism]] to Tibet. He had a [[Nepal]]i wife named [[Bhrikuti]] and a [[Tang Dynasty|Tang]] wife named [[Princess Wencheng]]. Both of them were Buddhists.{{Sfn|Shakabpa|1967}} He also helped invent the [[Tibetan alphabet]] and made [[Classical Tibetan]] the official language of Tibet at the time. He may have been born in 569 or 605. Tibet used their own calendar so we are still trying to figure it out. == As a kid == [[File:The_King_Songtsen_Gampo.jpg|left|thumb|262x262px|Statue of King Songtsen Gampo on horseback in front of the Songtsen Library in [[Dehradun]], India.]] Songtsen Gampo was born at [[Gyama Palace|Gyama]] in [[Maizhokunggar County|Meldro]], northeast of modern [[Lhasa]]. His dad was the Yarlung king [[Namri Songtsen]]. The book ''The Holder of the White Lotus'' says Gampo was the human form (incarna