The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia - Softcover

Beckwith, Christopher I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691024693 ISBN 13: 9780691024691

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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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From the Back Cover:

This richly detailed 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. Challenging the commonly held belief that East and West were largely isolated from each other until the discovery of sea routes to India and China, the book emphasizes the importance of overland contacts in the Early Middle Ages and elucidates Tibet's role in the conflict over Central Asia.

About the Author:

Christopher I. Beckwith is DistinguishedProfessor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University,Bloomington, and the recipient of a MacArthur Award. He has publishedextensively on Central Eurasian history and linguistics, including Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages (Brill, 2002), Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages II (Brill, 2005), Koguryo, Language of Japan's Continental Relatives (Brill 2004/ 2nd ed. 2007), Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction (Peter Lang, 2007), Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton, 2009), Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World (Princeton, 2012), and Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (Princeton, 2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0691024693
• ISBN 13: 9780691024691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292