Tibet and The Ming Dynasty
Further information: Tibet during the Ming DynastyModern historians still debate on the exact relationship the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) had with Tibet. Chinese sources assert that the Ming Dynasty had full sovereignty over Tibet, while scholars outside China assert that Tibet was simply an independent tributary and that the Ming merely had nominal suzerainty over Tibet by granting some lamas honorific titles.
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“They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the “discoverability” is the only error here.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)