eLibrary: Tibetan Empire (618-842)

Between 618 and 842 the mountain Kingdom gained control of an Empire that stretched as far North as the oasis town of Dunhuang and thereby controlled an important section of the ancient silk road, exposing it to the trade, produce and cultures.

Coincidentally (?) it was also an era in which Buddhism spread throughout the land. The 32 artifacts in this exhibition have been selected from ten museums/collections located in six different countries, as well as four artifacts in private collections.

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Articles

Bialek, J., 2023. bcan pos who were not khri: Royal titulature and the succession to the throne in the Tibetan Empire. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 86(1), 2023. pp.121-146. [pdf]

Debreczeny, K., 2019. Faith and Empire: An Overview. Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism, 2019. pp.19-52. [pdf]

DOTSON, B., INTERNATIONAl DIPlOMACY OF ThE TIBETAN EMPIRE (7Th–9Th CENTURIES). [pdf]

Garatti, E., Kingship Ideology in Sino-Tibetan Diplomacy during the VII-IX centuries. [pdf]

Godány, Z. THE IMAGE OF TIBET IN MEDIEVAL MUSLIM SOURCES.2013. [pdf download]

Heller, A. Archaeological artefacts from the Tibetan empire in Central Asia. Orientations, 34(4), 2003. pp.55-64. [pdf]

Heller, A.. Recent findings on textiles from the Tibetan Empire (Vol. 9, pp. 175-188). Abegg-Stiftung.2006. [pdf]

Jacques, G. Origins of Sino-Tibetan, bringing in evidence from history, biology and archaeology. 2022. [pdf]

Jikar, R., 2021. Language standardization for Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China. Language standardisation and language variation in multilingual contexts: Asian perspectives, 2021. pp.203-222. [De Gruyter Pill]

Kapstein, M.T., Selected Articles on Tibetan Religion During the 9th-10th centuries. [pdf]

Kim, H. Rainmakers for the Cosmopolitan Empire: A Historical and Religious Study of 18th Century Tibetan Rainmaking Rituals in the Qing Dynasty. Religions, 11(12), 2020. p.630. [pdf download]

Kovalev, R.K. Uyghur Khaganate. The Encyclopedia of Empire,2016. pp.1-6. [pdf]

Kuzmin, S.L. Hidden Tibet: history of independence and occupation. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.2011 [book]

Lopez, M. The ‘Twenty or Eighteen’Texts of the Mind Series: Scripture, Transmission, and the Idea of Canon in the Early Great Perfection Literature. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, 43, 2018. pp.50-94. [pdf]

Meinert, C., 2023. People, Places, Texts, and Topics: Another Look at the Larger Context of the Spread of Chan Buddhism in Eastern Central Asia during the Tibetan Imperial and Post-Imperial Period (7th–10th C.). Buddhism in Central Asia III, 2023. p.257. [pdf download]

Ren, L., Dong, G., Li, H., Rhode, D., Flad, R.K., Li, G., Yang, Y., Wang, Z., Cai, L., Ren, X. and Zhang, D. Dating human settlement in the east-central Tibetan Plateau during the Late Holocene. Radiocarbon, 60(1), 2018. pp.137-150. [pdf]

Scherrer-Schaub, C. A Perusal of Early Tibetan Inscriptions in Light of the Buddhist World of the 7th to 9th Centuries AD. In Epigraphic Evidence in the Pre-Modern Buddhist World: Proceedings of the Eponymous Conference Held in Vienna, 14–15 Oct (pp. 117-165).2011. [pdf]

Schmidt, D. The paradox of a global Tibetan. In Asian Borderlands. 2018 [pdf]

Sheng, P., Zhao, M., Dang, Z., Allen, E., Tajie, L.S., Ma, T. and Jiang, H., 2023. Foodways of the Medieval Tibetans on the Silk Road: New evidence from the Miran site in Xinjiang. The Holocene, 33(1), 2023. pp.91-100. [pdf]

Takeuchi, T. Formation and transformation of Old Tibetan. In Historical development of the Tibetan languages. Proceedings of the workshop B of the 17th Himalayan languages symposium, Kobe, 6th–9th September (pp. 3-17).2011. [pdf]

Tsering, T., 2014. On the unknown history of a Himalayan Buddhist enclave: Spiti valley before the 10th century. 研究年報, 51, 2014. pp.523-551. [pdf download]

Yang, X.Y., Rakha, A., Chen, W., Hou, J., Qi, X.B., Shen, Q.K., Dai, S.S., Sulaiman, X., Abdulloevich, N.T., Afanasevna, M.E. and Ibrohimovich, K.B. Tracing the genetic legacy of the Tibetan empire in the Balti. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(4),2021. pp.1529-1536. [pdf]

Zhu, K., Du, P., Li, J., Zhang, J., Hu, X., Meng, H., Chen, L., Zhou, B., Yang, X., Xiong, J. and Allen, E. Cultural and demic co-diffusion of Tubo Empire on Tibetan Plateau. IScience, 25(12).2022. [pdf]

Zou, Y., Cheng, J., Cresswell, M.P. and Lageard, J.G.A. Climate, environment and the fortunes of Buddhism during the Tibetan Empire 618-842 CE.2022. [pdf]