Tibetans are the indigenous people of the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, historically organized around Tibetan Buddhist monastic institutions that combined religious and, for periods of Tibetan history, political authority, most notably under the Dalai Lama lineage. Tibetan society traditionally combined settled barley agriculture in river valleys with high-altitude yak and sheep pastoralism, and Tibetan Buddhist monastic culture produced an extensive documented literary, philosophical and artistic tradition. Since the People's Republic of China's 1950-51 incorporation of Tibet and the 1959 uprising and subsequent exile of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the political status of Tibet and the condition of Tibetan cultural and religious practice under Chinese administration have remained a genuinely and extensively documented international human-rights and diplomatic subject. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Group TypeSourced to the subject's own account Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountTibetan Plateau (Tibet Autonomous Region and adjacent Chinese provinces, with diaspora in India, Nepal and worldwide) 1 Primary LanguageSourced to the subject's own account Subsistence ModeSourced to the subject's own accountHistorically high-altitude pastoralism (notably yak herding) and barley agriculture adapted to the Tibetan Plateau environment. 1 Disputed
Population Estimateestimated 6 to 7 million 1 Sourced to the subject's own accountChinese census figures for Tibetan areas are contested by the Tibetan exile government and independent researchers on similar grounds to broader disputes over ethnic-minority enumeration in China. Connections
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Fraternal polyandry, in which brothers jointly marry one wife, is a well documented traditional marriage form among Tibetan communities, particularly in agrarian and pastoral highland households.
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Sky burial (jhator) is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist funerary practice returning the body to nature through excarnation, historically the most common Tibetan funerary rite.
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Tibetans are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Their current population is estimated to be around 7.7 million.
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