Tibetan armor information

Tibetan culture has a long history of producing armor for military and ceremonial use. Tibetan armor came in many forms, and was produced into the 20th...

Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po, lit. 'Great Tibet'; Chinese: 吐蕃; pinyin: Tǔbō / Tǔfān) was an empire centered on the Tibetan...

(1884–1885) Chinese swords Chinese polearms Japanese armour Korean armour Tibetan armor Indian armour Dien 1981, p. 6. Peers 2006, p. 20. Peers 2006, p. 24...

of Tibetan masters", 2021, Asian arts Rhie and Thurman, 253 Rhie and Thurman, 378–379 La Rocca, Donald J. "The Decoration of Tibetan Arms and Armor." In...

four (sometimes more) metal discs or rectangular armour plates. Mirror armor was used in some cultures up to the 20th century. "Mirror armour" is a type...

July 2003 Breiding, Dirk H. "Fashion in European Armor, 1600–1700". Department of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2020-10-03...

Lokapāla (Sanskrit: लोकपाल, Tibetan: འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ, Wylie: 'jig rten skyong ba), Sanskrit, Pāli, and Tibetan for "guardian of the world", has different...

reportedly deployed in the Tibetan Plateau. Type 15 / ZTQ-15 Designation for military version. Type 15 Armored Recovery Vehicle Armored recovery vehicle based...

2307/1798118. JSTOR 1798118. La Rocca, Donald J. "Tibetan Arms and Armor". www.metmuseum.org. Department of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved...

armour Mongol war mask, 12-14th century. One of the only two Mongolian or Tibetan armour masks. Yuan helmet Yuan helmet Yuan helmet Mongol helmet, 15th-17th...

Armor in the Indian subcontinent was used since antiquity. Its earlier reference is found in the Vedic period. Armor has been described in religious texts;...

cataphract was a very heavily armored horseman, with both the rider and mount almost completely covered in Scale armor or Lamellar armour over chain mail...

symbolized approaching Death. It was the reason for the armor and the hood. Death is connected with armor and inhuman-like steel. Death is something without...

thousand suits of armor were captured. — New Book of Tang In 803, the Tang pushed the Tibetan Empire back to Pingliang. In 819, the Tibetan Empire attacked...

Ṭalās) was an armed confrontation between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Tibetan Empire against the Tang dynasty in 751 AD. In July of that year, the Tang...

and Nepal, who are often mistaken for Chinese, despite being closer to Tibetans and the Burmese than to Han Chinese peoples. In 2012, the Indian Ministry...

by elephants. Shiwa Okar featured in a work composed by the influential Tibetan Buddhist lama Chögyam Trungpa, particularly a long verse epic composed...

eight legs. Simhamukha (Tibetan) – a wisdom dakini of the Dzogchen tradition with the head of a snow lion Snow Lion (Tibetan) – a celestial animal of...

samboghakaya Buddha of transcendental wisdom also known as the "Great Mother" (Tibetan: Yum Chenmo) who was widely depicted in Asian Buddhist art. The word Prajñāpāramitā...

2017-11-21. La Rocca, Donald J. (2014). Recent Acquisitions of Tibetan and Mongolian Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Part 2. Vol. 2. New York:...

two "Tibetan" warriors, but they were based on photos taken by Lt. G. J. Davys in Chumbi Valley of non-Tibetans doing fake battles, and the armor were...

garrisons even after communication had been cut off from Chang'an by the Tibetan Empire. The last five years of the protectorate are regarded as an uncertain...

the 7th century BC, but not much is known prior to the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism in the 9th century, when turmoil in Tibet forced many monks to...