The Benefits and Challenges of Open Educational Resources
TIBET
1. TIBET A BRIEF HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL
ANALYSIS
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3. The Tibetan Empire at its greatest extent between the 780s and the 790s AD
4. Map showing major religious regimes during the Era of Fragmentation in Tibet
(9th-12th Century)
5. Tibet within the Yuan dynasty under the top-level department known as the Bureau of Buddhist and
Tibetan Affairs (Xuanzheng Yuan)
6. Tibet within the Qing dynasty in 1820
Map showing Dzungar–Qing Wars between Qing
Dynasty and Dzungar Khanate
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8. Central Tibet is also known as the Tibet Autonomous
Region or TAR. It is the most renowned as it represents
some of Tibet’s most venerated religious sites, the
historical residences of the successive Dalai Lamas, and
the gateway to the highest peaks on earth,
including Everest. The TAR famously
includes Lhasa, Shigatse, Yamdrok Lake and Everest Base
Camp
Kham is one of the three traditional Tibetan
regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast,
and Ü-Tsang in central Tibet. The original residents
of Kham are called Khampas ,and were governed
locally by chieftains and monasteries. Kham
presently covers a land area distributed between
five regions in China, most of it in Tibet
Autonomous Region and Sichuan, with smaller
portions located within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan
provinces.
9. Amdo is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others
being U-Tsangin the west and Kham in the east. Ngari (including
former Guge kingdom) in the north-west was incorporated into Ü-
Tsang. Amdo is also the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama. Amdo
encompasses a large area from the Machu (Yellow River) to the
Drichu (Yangtze).Amdo is mostly coterminous with China's
present-day Qinghai province, but also includes small portions
of Sichuan and Gansu provinces.
Historically, culturally, and ethnically a part of Tibet, Amdo was
from the mid-18th century and after administered by a series of
local Tibetan rulers. The Dalai Lamas have not directly governed
the area since that time.
