Sino-Tibetan

These findings indicate that the actual confrontation between religion and the state on the Sino-Tibetan frontier was more complicated than jurisdictional disputes between an idealized hierarchical Buddhist clergy and a monolithic state apparatus.

Although genetic classification in Sino-Tibetan very much remains a nascent work in progress, and many languages are still unclassified with respect to their branch affiliation, it is likely that at least six branches of Sino-Tibetan are represented by the abovementioned languages.

Zhang (2012) has similarly argued: "[--] the so-called Sino-Tibetan language family is just a unverified hypothesis, [--] with no academic achievements in this area universally accepted by scholars in the linguistic community so far.

(97.) See Sino-Tibetan Dialogue, supra note 33, at 16 (noting the 1993 protest in Lhasa over similar issues having to do with economic exclusion).

The Strasbourg Proposal is the most reasonable basis for Sino-Tibetan talks.

Bhutia says all these behoove a grim and uncertain future for all stakeholders in the Sino-Tibetan problem.

From the above brief review, it is clear that the rulers that ruled Arakan, in centuries before the Sino-Tibetan invasion in the 10th and 11th centuries, were of Indian descent, as were the people (the so-called Kalas) who lived there.

Other articles in this section discuss specific Sino-Tibetan authors and the tensions around their hybrid identities.

Manuscripts and travellers; the Sino-Tibetan documents of a tenth-century Buddhist pilgrim.

Diane Wolff, author of Tibet Unconquered and a 2011 nominee for the Women's Courage in Journalism Award, examines the complex past and present Sino-Tibetan relationship.

The languages spoken by the Indian population can be divided into four language families: the Austric (Nishad), Dravidian (Dravid), Sino-Tibetan (Kirat), and Indo-European (Aryan) families.