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Tibetan history in Pictures
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☮✌ Delivering real and authentic historical pictures of Tibet, RTs are not Endorsements. Contact us: historytibetan@gmail.com
Nov 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Did you know that the #Tibetan Empire was once among the strongest in Asia?

The #Tibetan Empire was one of the most powerful and influential empires ever to be seen in Asia and its rule extended over parts of #China, #Nepal, #India and #CentralAsia. The Tibetan Empire in 700 AD (map for better understanding) The empire was founded by #SongstenGampo who is still regarded to this day as one of Tibet's greatest-ever rulers. Tibet and neighbouring countries in Asia.
Mar 23, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Drigung Monastery, #Tibetan monastery famous for performing sky burials

Photographed by 📸Mark Evans in November 2005 Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་,"bird-scattered") is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds.
Mar 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
A statue of Songtsen Gampo in his traditional meditation cave at #Yerpa A statue of Songtsen Gampo in his traditional meditation cav Yerpa (also known as , Drak Yerpa, Druk Yerpa, Dagyeba, Dayerpa and Trayerpa) is a monastery and a number of ancient #meditation caves that used to house many monks, located a short drive to the east of Lhasa, #Tibet Monestary ruins 1993
Mar 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
King Songtsen Gampo and his Chinese and Nepali queens Wen-cheng Kung-chu and Bhrikuti Devi.

Songtsen Gampo (617 – 649 A.D.) Songtsen Gampo ascended to the throne at the age of thirteen. Image During the reign of King Songtsen Gampo, #Tibet emerged as a unified state and became a great
military power, with its armies marching across Central Asia. Thus, the King of #Nepal and the Emperor of #China offered their daughters in marriage to the Tibetan king. Statue of Emperor Songtsen ...
Mar 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Three Provinces of Tibet
Tibet as one nation: the traditional costumes U-Tsang, left, Kham, center, and Amdo, right The Three Provinces of Tibe... Tibet is comprised of the three provinces of Amdo (now split by China into the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu & Sichuan),
Mar 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Potala Palace and the City of Lhasa. At the top, left corner is Drepung Monastery. Below that is the Stupa Gate on the west side of the Potala. In the center of the composition is the Potala Palace.
Mar 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Tritsuk Detsen (ཁྲི་གཙུག་ལྡེ་བཙན) according to traditional sources, was the 41st king of the Yarlung Dynasty of #Tibet . Ralpachen is one of Tibet’s three Dharma Kings. Ralpachen is considered a very important king in the history of Tibet Stone lion on burial mound ... and Tibetan #Buddhism , as one of the three Dharma Kings (chosgyal) of the Yarlung Dynasty, which includes Songtsen Gampo the 33rd king, Trisong Detsen the 38th king and Ralpachen.