The book is based on foreign and western Tibetan sources of information which are records on stones and on paper. Records on stones cover the period 200 B.C. to 1900 A.D. records on paper are the chronicles of the Kings of Leh (or Ladakh). Francke's own pioneering reseaches into the dialects, customs, folk-lore, ethnology, and archaeology of western tibet are widely known.
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The book is based on foreign and western Tibetan sources of information which are records on stones and on paper. Records on stones cover the period 200 B.C. to 1900 A.D. records on paper are the chronicles of the Kings of Leh (or Ladakh). Francke's own pioneering reseaches into the dialects, customs, folk-lore, ethnology, and archaeology of western tibet are widely known.
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