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[[File:Tibetan-armor.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A suit of 18th-19th c. Tibetan armor, shield, and weapons. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].]]
Tibet is a center of Himalayan Buddhism, and was a powerful independent kingdom for many centuries, until its conquest by Chinese Communist forces in 1949.
By the eighth century, Tibet had become one of China's most powerful neighbors; from the 760s-780s, Tibetan forces raided the [[Tang Dynasty]] capital of [[Chang'an]] every autumn. Raids grew less frequent after that, but continued into the 9th century, when the kingdom of Tibet began to decline.
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==References==
*Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 227.
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Tibet is a center of Himalayan Buddhism, and was a powerful independent kingdom for many centuries, until its conquest by Chinese Communist forces in 1949.
By the eighth century, Tibet had become one of China's most powerful neighbors; from the 760s-780s, Tibetan forces raided the [[Tang Dynasty]] capital of [[Chang'an]] every autumn. Raids grew less frequent after that, but continued into the 9th century, when the kingdom of Tibet began to decline.
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==References==
*Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 227.
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]