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In ancient Tibet, the use of coins was insignificant.Tibet's main neighbours, India, Nepal and China had had their own coinage since time immemorial. Ancient Tibet however had no locally-struck coinage, although a certain number of coins from Nepal, Chinese Turkestan and China had reached Tibet by way of trade, or as donations to important monasteries.
Summary Description Numismata Orientalia - Coins of the Ṭúlúni Dynasty by Edward Thomas Rogers (1877).pdf English: A book about the coinage of the Ṭúlúni Dynasty published in the year 1877.
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In 1954, a silver coin was struck for distribution to monks. Although this coin was the last tangka issue, it was valued at 5 srang and was the last silver coin to be struck in Tibet. The last Tibetan copper coins (5 sho = 1/2 srang) were issued in 1953, while 100 srang notes were issued in large numbers until 1959.
Writing for the Economic and Political Weekly, Abanti Bhattacharya of the University of Delhi writes, "[The Book] stands out from the rest of the genre on Tibet’s history not simply because it makes an attempt to look at the status of Tibet as many other studies do, but because it essentially narrates the story of Tibet as it is." [1]
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The book provides the first detailed account of the behind-the-scenes political developments in Tibet and Tibetan society during the beginning of Chinese occupation of Tibet, the involvement of the United States through the Central Intelligence Agency, the role of the Indian government, the mass uprising against the Chinese, the negotiations between the Panchen Lama and the Chinese government ...
A History of Tibet by the Fifth Dalai Lama of Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་དེབ་ཐེར་དཔྱིད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མོའི་གླུ་དབྱངས་, Wylie: bod kyi deb ther dpyid kyi rgyal mo'i glu dbyangs) is a historical work written by Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, the 5th Dalai Lama who ruled Tibet from 1617 to 1682.