Re: Was Tibet ever independent?

On Mar 16, 9:38=A0pm, James <j0069b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Maybe Tibetans thought they were because Peking was too busy trying to
> servive after being carved up like a turkey by western powers.

In those days, there were no such thing as "independence".  Each
"area" was controlled by a tribal chiefton. Back in the second
millium, Emperor Han Wudi of the Han Dynasty sent one of daughter to
be a wife of a Tibetan ruler to cement a tributary relation****p.  That
was the beginning of China/Tibet inter-relation****p..