The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages

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Princeton University Press, 21 juil. 2020 - 292 pages

This narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for dominance over the Silk Road lands that connected Europe and East Asia. It shows the importance of overland contacts between East and West in the Early Middle Ages and elucidates Tibet's role in the conflict over Central Asia.

 

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Tibet and Central Asia before the Empire
14
On the Western Regions in Old Tibetan Sources
206
Afterword 1993
213
Table of Rulers
226
Glossary
232
Bibliographical Essay
245
Early Medieval Central Asia
254
Early Medieval Eurasia
269
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Christopher I. Beckwith is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. He received a 1986 MacArthur Fellowship.

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