Tengri Tribe

The Tengri Tribe was founded by Tengri Khan in 600 c. and ruled circa ( 620 - 945 c. ) The Tengri tribe was the predecessor of the Borjigin. The founder of the Borjigin, Bodonchar Munkhag, his father, Dobun Mergen Khan, was the last ruler of the Tengri, and their rule ended with his reign in 945 c.
The tribe was in power for 325 years from the 7th to the 10th century. The tribe had thirteen rulers, who used the titles Tsenpo and Khan. Another member of the Tengri tribe and Tibetan Empire was Tengri Khan's elder brother Songtsen Gampo, who founded the Empire in 618 c.
Rulers
Tengri Khan, was the first khan of the Tengri founded the tribe in 620 c. He settled in the Eastern Turkic Khaganate (today China and Mongolia). Later groups associated with the Tengri were known as syr-Tardush, Göktürks, Uyghurs, the Tang Empire, Khitans, and the Liao dynasty.
Debun Mergen Khan, the last ruler of the Tengri Tribe, died in 945 c. The tribe was broken but Debun's son Bodonchar later restored it and founded a new tribe named Borjigin in 900 c.
Name
The word Tengri is a historical anglicisation of the name of Tengri Khan, the founder of the tribe and of the ruling Yarlung Clan (also known as the Yarlung dynasty).
The Mongol word for Tengri originally referred to the tribal followers of Yarlung in the 7th century. The word subsequently came to be used to refer to the tribe's military-administrative elite.
Origins
Tengri Khan was the son of the 32nd Emperor of Tibet, Namri Songtsen. according to History of book his real name was mysterious Tengri Khan was born at end of the 6th century. He was the prince of the Yarlung dynasty and took the name Tengri Khan as his title at a young age on his father's death in 618 succeeded by his elder brother Songtsen Gampo and founded the Tibetan Empire in 618 and expanded to cover a large area.
Ancestry
Tengri Khan was the 31st generation from the first king of Tibet, Nyatri Tsenpo, who founded the Yarlung dynasty in 127 B.C.E
Descendants
After the last ruler of the Tengri tribe, Debun Mergen Khan, died in 945 c., Tengri Tribe rule ended. Debun's son Bodonchar founded a new tribe named Borjigin in 900 c. His descendants included the Mongol conqueror Chenghis Khan, and the Barlas tribe Mongol conqueror Amir Timur.
Stagnation
For 325 years The Tengri tribe had no war, and politics were peaceful. The tribe's rulers focused on administration, (Tengri Khan to Debun Mergen Khan) with only a few conflicts and battles.
Conflict with Tang Empire
In the middle of the 8th century the Tang Empire was fighting in Central Asia. At that time the Tengri tribe rose and conquered other tribes, then Tang empire captured the Tengri tribe and taxed them, and Tengri tribe became a protectorate of the Tang Empire.
Fall
On the death of Dobun Mergen Khan the tribe had struggles and big strong Tribe have loss the power the Tengri tribe expanded to other areas and tribes, and territory was lost and the Adviser are backbeating the tribe was not end but the perfectly size was become normal, Debun son Bodonchar founded a new tribe named Borjigin in 900 c. and the eighth ruler of the Borjigin tribe, Khabul Khan, founded the khamag Mongol in 1130 c., and the tribes were united and strong.

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