ABSTRACT
The Tibetan geopolitical experience as described in the previous chapter has basically been presented as a low-profile theoretical affair. History by its contingent nature, does not lend itself easily to hard-and-fast views on the rise and demise of states, whether rooted in models of coercive force or cosmological symbolism. Moreover, it would be a mistake to conceive of geopolitical processes as a set of reified reins, sufficient in itself to guide the course of a particular regional history. The message seems clear enough. No premature massaging of facts, no manipulation by exclusion, but the informed ordering of lived realities as conditioned by a variety of societal and geohistorical universes.
