Suspect Tibetan isolation myth was a failed strategy of Tibetan elite, starting in late 1800s, to preserve their power vs democratization.
Many things I’ve read recently contradict the claim that Tibet was culturally isolated. Want to know more, esp. where myth came from.
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This was the dynamic in Japan a hundred years earlier, anyway. Backfired in both cases.
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