# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tonmi-sambhota
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:54:32.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tonmi-sambhota"
name: "Tonmi Sambhota"
slug: "tonmi-sambhota"
description: "Thonmi Sambhota (Thönmi Sambhoṭa, is a figure credited by Tibetan traditions with creating the first Tibetan script, based on the Gupta alphabet, after being sent by king Songtsen Gampo to study in India. He is also credited with serving the king as his minister and escorting two princesses from Nepal and China into Tibet to become Songtsen Gampo's queens. The authenticity of this legend has been questioned."
tagline: "Purported inventor of the Tibetan script and grammar."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomni-sambhota-thangka-72-for-web-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "618"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.89701466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тхонми Самбхота"
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    title: "থু-মি-সাম-ভো-তা"
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    title: "སློབ་དཔོན་ཐུ་མི་སམ་བྷོ་ཊ།"
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    title: "Thonmi Sambhota"
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    title: "Thönmi Sambhota"
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    title: "Thönmi Sambhota"
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    title: "Thonmi Sambhota"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тхонми Самбхота"
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    title: "Thönmi Sambhota"
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    title: "เทินมี สัมโภฏะ"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump