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While the Tibetan plateau has been inhabited since pre-historic times, most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the creation of Tibetan script in the 7th century. . Tibetan texts refer to the kingdom of Zhangzhung (c. 500 BCE – 625 CE) as the precursor of later Tibetan kingdoms and the originators of the Bon re
Goldstein, Melvyn C. (18 June 1991). A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State.University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91176-5.; Tibet:A Fascinating Look at the Roof of the World, Its People and Culture, Chicago, USA: Passport Books, Shangri-la Press, 1986, pp. 186– 194
The history of Tibet from 1950 to the present includes the Chinese annexation of Tibet, during which Tibetan representatives signed the controversial Seventeen Point Agreement following the Battle of Chamdo and establishing an autonomous administration led by the 14th Dalai Lama under Chinese sovereignty.
Some estimates extend their timeline into deep prehistory, to "10,000 BC", i.e., the early Holocene, when world population estimates range roughly between 1 and 10 million (with an uncertainty of up to an order of magnitude). [3] [4] Estimates for yet deeper prehistory, into the Paleolithic, are of a different nature.
Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Wylie: Bod) was a de facto independent state in East Asia that lasted from the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912 until its annexation by the People's Republic of China in 1951.
The Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po,lit. ' Great Tibet '; was an empire centered on the Tibetan Plateau, formed as a result of expansion under the Yarlung dynasty heralded by its 33rd king, Songtsen Gampo, in the 7th century.
Wind Between The Worlds The extraordinary first-person account of a Westerner's life in Tibet as an official of the Dalai Lama (1957) David Mckay Co., Inc. Goldstein, Melvyn C. (1989), A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-91176-5, ISBN 978-0-520-06140-8
The history of a unified Tibet begins with ... according to the 2010 Chinese census ethnic Tibetans comprise 90% of a total population of 3 million in the Tibet ...