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Greater Tibet
An Examination of Borders, Ethnic Boundaries, and Cultural Areas
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2015
Summary
The concept of Greater Tibet has surfaced in the political and academic worlds in recent years. It is based in the inadequacies of other definitions of what constitutes the historical and modern worlds in which Tibetan people, ideas, and culture occupy. This collection of papers is inspired by a panel on Greater Tibet held at the XIIIth meeting of the International Association of Tibet Studies in Ulaan Baatar in 2013. Participants included leading Tibet scholars, experts in international law, and Tibetan officials.
Greater Tibet is inclusive of all peoples who generally speak languages from the Tibetan branch of the Tibeto-Burman family, have a concept of mutual origination, and share some common historical narratives. It includes a wide area, including peoples from the Central Asian Republics, Pakistan, India, Nepal Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, Russia, and Tibetan people in diaspora abroad. It may even include practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism who are not of Tibetan origin, and Tibetan peoples who do not practice Buddhism. Most of this area corresponds to the broad expansion of Tibetan culture and political control in the 7th–9th centuries AD, and is thus many times larger than the current Tibet Autonomous Region in China—the Tibetan “culture area.”
As a conceptual framework, Greater Tibet stands in contrast to Scott’s concept of Zomia for roughly the same region, a term which defines an area of highland Asia and Southeast Asia characterized by disdain for rule from distant centers, failed state formation, anarchist, and “libertarian” individual proclivities.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-0644-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-0645-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
172
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Notes on Transliterations No access
Introduction: Greater Tibet No access Pages 1 - 6
1 Tibetan Exile or Diaspora No access Pages 7 - 36
2 Another Tibet at the Heart of Qing China No access Pages 37 - 56
3 The Rawang Tribes of Highland Southeast Asia No access Pages 57 - 64
4 Tibet as a State No access Pages 65 - 84
5 The Role of India’s National Interests vis-à-vis Tibet No access Pages 85 - 94
6 The Baltistan Movement on Facebook No access Pages 95 - 110
7 A Case for Gelukpa Governance No access Pages 111 - 148
8 Essay: Buddhism Post–Soviet Union No access Pages 149 - 152
9 Essay: A Greater Tibet and the Irony of Liberation No access Pages 153 - 156
