For thousands of years the Land of Snows has been home to a civilisation steeped in intellectual, creative and cultural activities. Especially following the development of Tibetan script by Thonmi Sambhota and its dissemination, Tibetans began to transmit many foreign cultures and ideas into Tibet. It was an era of immense cultural, political and socio-economic heights – a monumental period in Tibetan history that everybody aspired to and admired. Despite the total disintegration of the Tibetan empire in the aftermath of the emperor Lang-Darma’s drowning and demolition of Tibetan Buddhism, it is the rich cultural and intellectual strands that bound Tibetans of the three regions together like a bundle of twigs. With the spread of Tibetan Buddhism and culture in many parts of the world including Europe and the United States in the 20th century, innumerable scholars and educated individuals around the world have come to appreciate the significance of the Tibetan culture and its heritage. [Source]
