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disciples | Who did Rolpe Dorje send as envoys to court in Nanjing? |
Ming government | Who created a law that did not allow Han Chinese to learn the beliefs of Tibetan Buddhism? |
1402–1424 | What years did the Yongle Emperor reign? |
the Yongle Emperor | Who worked towards obtaining a extension of relations with Tibet? |
1644–1912 | What years did the Qing dynasty rule? |
1739 | what year was the history of Ming produced? |
É-Lì-Sī Army-Civilian Marshal Office | What did the Ming dynasty create? |
seventeen Qianhu offices | How many Qianhu offices were there? |
western Tibet | where was the É-Lì-Sī Army-Civilian Marshal Office established? |
three | How many princes of Dharma were assigned by the Ming court? |
Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen | Who established the Tibetan law code? |
Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen | Who was the Phagmodru ruler? |
Turrell V. Wylie | who was a professor of the University of Washington? |
Tibet | Who had a large amount of contacts with china during Yuan? |
Morris Rossabi | Who believed that Tibet barely had any diplomatic relations with the Ming? |
historian Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa | Who supported van Praag's beliefs? |
Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain | Who did not agree with van Praag and Shakabpa? |
Wang and Nyima | Who believed that the Ming court had full sovereignty over Tibet? |
1371 | What year did Wang and Nyima believe that the Mongol Prince Punala went to Nanjing? |
princes | What did the lamas called themselves? |
imperial edicts | What edicts did the Ming issue? |
Journalist and author Thomas Laird | Who wrote the book The Story of Tibet? |
the British | who colonized India and New Zealand? |
the government viewpoint of the People's Republic of China | Who's viewpoint does Thomas Laird believe Wang and Nyima present? |
A Mongol dynasty of China | How did the The Columbia Encyclopedia describe the Yuan dynasty? |
the line of Mongol rulers in China | How did the Encyclopedia Americana describe the Yuan Dynasty? |
a non-Chinese polity | What did Thomas Laird dismiss the Yuan dynasty as? |
Rossabi | Who wrote the book Khubilai Khan? |
1271 to 1368 | When did the yuan dynasty start and end? |
1311–1320 | When did Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan reign? |
a licensed border market | During the Yuan what existed between China and Tibet? |
the Mongols and other ethnicities | Who was granted higher status than the Han Chinese majority? |
the Ming | Who abolished the policy council? |
the General of the Ngari Military and Civil Wanhu Office | What was the Tibetan leader Choskunskyabs appointed as? |
Ming dynasty's Ü-Tsang Commanding Office | Who governed most areas of Tibet? |
Beijing | Where is the China Tibetology Research Center located? |
Chen Qingying | Who was the Director of the History Studies Institute? |
1,000 households | How many households were the offices of Qianhu in charge of? |
10,000 households | How many households were the offices of Wanhu in charge of? |
John Powers | What was the name of the Tibetologist? |
ruling lamas | Who did the Ming emperors send invitations to? |
subordinates | When the lamas received an invite from the emperors, who did they send instead? |
the Tarim Basin and oasis of Turpan | What was the western regions composed of? |
foreign officials | Who believed that they were the true Han Western representatives? |
Education Minister | What title was given by the Yuan court to Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen ? |
Degsi | What Tibetan title was hardly ever mentioned when referring to Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen? |
Phagmodrupa Dynasty | What dynasty kept a Central-local government relation with the Yuan imperial court? |
Wang and Nyima | What two people claim the title of Education Minister was often seen next to Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen's name in Tibetan texts? |
The Tai Situpa | Who wrote in their will that they received loving care from the emperor in the east? |
Changchub Gyaltsen | Who divided Central Tibet into districts? |
Van Praag | Who strongly believed Changchub Gyaltsen wanted to restore the glories of its Imperial age to Tibet? |
the University of Washington | What university was Lok-Ham Chan a professor at? |
all traces of Mongol suzerainty | What did Lok-Ham Chan claim Changchub Gyaltsen wanted to remove? |
Sagya Gyaincain | Who did the Hongwu Emperor grant the title Initiation State Master to? |
the Ming officer of Hezhou | Who suggested to the emperor that an official title be granted to second Phagmodru ruler? |
Jamyang Shakya Gyaltsen | Who was the second Phagmodru ruler? |
the Ming officer of Hezhou | Who told the emperor that the situation in Dbus and Gtsang were under control? |
to the Ming court | Where were the envoys sent? |
the Phagmodrupa | Who lost their power over Tibet? |
1434 | What year did the Phagmodrupa lose their power over Tibet? |
1642 | What year did the 5th Dalai lama start to dominate over Tibet? |
hegemonies | What did the other families fail to establish? |
the Karmapa Kargyu | The Ming Dynasty granted what titles to lamas of schools? |
Mongol | Who did the Ming Dynasty decline titles from after receiving invitations? |
Je Tsongkhapa | Who was the founder of the Gelug school? |
the Ming Yongle Emperor | Who invited Je Tsongkhapa to come pay tribute? |
Tsongkhapa | Who wrote the letter declining the Emperor's invitation? |
1407 | When did the Ming first request Tsongkhapa to come to court? |
1413 | When did the Ming court send a second request to Tsongkhapa? |
his disciple Chosrje Shākya Yeshes | Who did Tsongkhapa send in his place to Nanjing? |
1414 | When was Chosrje Shākya Yeshes sent to Nanjing? |
Dawa Norbu | Who believed the Ming reappointed old Yuan dynasty officials in Tibet? |
eastern Tibetan princes | Who did the Ming appoint titles to? |
an army | What didn't the Ming send to replace the Mongols when they left Tibet? |
Tibet | What does Yiu Yung-chin claim the Ming did not possess? |
Yang Sanbao | What was the name of the eunuch? |
Tibet | Where did the Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao? |
1413 | When did Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao into Tibet? |
the allegiance of various Tibetan princes | Why did Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao into Tibet? |
to maintain the loyalty of neighboring vassal states | Why did the emperor pay a small fortune in gifts? |
the Ming court | Who did the Gelug exchange gifts with? |
1430s | Until what year frame did the Gelug exchange gifts with the the Ming? |
the Mingshi or the Mingshi Lu | What was the Gelug not mentioned in? |
various lamas | Regardless of their sectarian affiliations, who did the Ming grant titles to? |
the Phagmodru myriarchy | Who was the viceregal Sakya regime overthrown by? |
Melvyn C. Goldstein | Who believed that the Ming had no real authority over Tibet? |
1435–1565 | What years did the Rinpungpa regime start and end? |
Melvyn C. Goldstein | Who believed that the titles given to Tibetan leaders did not confer authority? |
1565–1642 | What years did the Tsangpa start and end? |
1398–1402 | What year did the Jianwen Emperor reign start and end? |
the Buddhist monk Yao Guangxiao | Who aided the Yongle Emperor? |
the Hongwu Emperor | Who was Yongle Emperor's father? |
March 10, 1403 | When did the Yongle Emperor invite Deshin Shekpa to his court? |
Hou Xian and the Buddhist monk Zhi Guang | Who did the Yongle Emperor send to Tibet? |
to seek out the Karmapa | Why did the Yongle Emperor send Hou Xian and Zhi Guang to Tibet? |
1407 | When did Hou Xian and Zhi Guang return to Nanjing? |
through Qinghai or via the Silk Road to Khotan | Where did Hou Xian and Zhi Guang travel through on their way to the Karmapa? |
1403 | When did Deshin Shekpa travels start? |
Nanjing | Where did the Yongle Emperor greet the Karmapa? |
the Karmapa | Who did the Emperor give the place of honor at his left to? |