General Influences
Buddhist missionaries who came mainly from Nepal and China introduced arts and customs from India and China. Several works on astronomy, astrology and medicine were translated from Sanskrit and Chinese. The general appliances of civilization have come from China, among many things and skill imported were the making of butter, cheese, barley-beer, pottery, water mills and the national beverage tea. A Tibetologist noted: “we may in fact say that the present civilization of Tibet was taken mainly from China, and only in a lesser degree from India."
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