He is also credited with bringing many new cultural and technological advances to Tibet. The "Jiu Tangshu", or "Old Book of Tang", states that after the defeat in 648 of an Indian army in support of Chinese envoys, the Chinese Emperor, Gaozong, a devout Buddhist, gave him the title variously written "Binwang", "Guest King" or "Zongwang", "Cloth-tribute King" and 3,000 rolls of multicoloured silk in 649 and granted the Tibetan king's request for "silkworms' eggs, mortars and presses for making wine, and workmen to manufacture paper and ink."