Background
Unlike his father and older brothers he embraced Chinese culture, especially Buddhism.
佗缽可汗佗钵可汗長樂公主
Unlike his father and older brothers he embraced Chinese culture, especially Buddhism.
Taspar"s death marked the beginning of a long decline and subjugation of the Göktürks to China. The third son of Tumen and fourth qaghan. He switched his alliance from Zhou to Qi and granted defeated Qi prince asylum.
He attacked Zhou repeatedly until they bought his goodwill with princess Zhou Tsienkien, whom they traded for the head of the Qi prince.
Both the result of pogroms. These Sogdians devised the Göktürk Runes to write the Turkic language, for translations of the sutras to Turkic.
Notably the Nirvana Sutra. Taspar"s death created a dynastic crisis in the Khaganate.
His bequest ran contrary to the traditional system of inheritance which demanded the throne to be passed to the son of the eldest brother, Ishbara.
The council rejected the legality of Taspar"s will and appointed Ishbrara as the next khagan. Talopien"s faction did not recognize Ishbara and vice versa. This crisis ultimately resulted in the civil war of 581-603, which greatly weakened the state.