Journal paper

Issue No.	No. 50
Title	A Study on the Prototype of Prime Minister and Officials Set during the TribalAlliance of Tubo Period
Author	Lin, Kuan-chun
Page	33-58
Abstract	The Tubo historian officials had attribute all of those well designs legislative of Tubo court by《the Biography of TuboBtsan-po》 to Srong-bstansgam-po himself alone. However proper system may not show up suddenly, thus during the period of Tubo alliance period before Srong-bstan-sgam-po, it should be generate certain administrative institution prototypes. 　　This article has applied historiography research method and Tibetan linguistic knowledge, the author tries to search clues about prime minister and officials before the ruling of Srong-bstan-sgam-po, that derives from the 《Account Tibetan Documents from Dunhuang (shogdrilyig rigs)》〈the Old Tibetan Annals 〉 , 《 the Biography of TuboBtsan-po 》 . Figures out the phenomenon of prototype of prime minister and officials, during the Tubo alliance period. 　　《the Biography of TuboBtsan-po》had written about the prime minister of Tubo alliance. It can be realized those political mission and authority of prime minister. This documentary had appeared certain official position and their duty, such as, Chamberlain officials (snampyipa), Valet officials (btsanpovizhavbringsnang ma pa), officials of financial and tax (mngan), officials that managed slave households (kholtshabnangblon). This might declares there are roughly difference between inner and outer court during the Tubo alliance period. Those official titles shown above should proved the duty and responsibility of official had been clearly gradually. Therefore, those well designs legislative of Tubo courts were built up and develop by the steps previous generations, it is not set up just only by the period of Srong-bstansgam-po.
Keyword	Tubo, Tribal alliance of Tubo, official institution of Tubo, institution of the prime minister of Tubo.
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