Bhrikuti was seen as an incarnation of Green Tara,[5][6] and is credited for bringing Buddhism to Tibet,[4] together with the Jowo Mikyo Dorje statue for which the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa was built.

[4] Even though the historicity of Bhrikuti Devi is not certain, and no reference to her has been found among the documents discovered at Dunhuang, "there are increasing indications supporting this hypothesis.

"[7] There were certainly very close relationships between Tibet and Nepal at this period and, "Such a mythological interpretation discredits in no way the historical likelihood of such a marriage...."[8] Many Tibetan accounts make Bhrikuti the daughter of Amshuvarma (605–621 CE), co-ruler and successor of Śivadeva I.

[9] Acharya Kirti Tulku Lobsang Tenzin, however, states that Songstän Gampo married Bhrkuti Devi, the daughter of king "Angsu Varma" or Amshuvarma (Tib: Waser Gocha) of Nepal in 632.

"[15][16][17] It is not known exactly when Bhrikuti married Songtsen Gampo, but it was presumably about the time that Narendradeva fled to Tibet (c. 621 CE), following Dhruvadeva's take-over of the throne (who, according to an inscription dated in 623, was ruling jointly with Jiṣṇugupta.

They also built the red palace of dMar-po-ri which shifted the ancient seat of government in the Yarlung Valley at Yumbulakhang to the site of modern Lhasa.