Tibetans

State · 850–1259 CE · at its largest around 860 CE

Tibet after the collapse of the Tibetan Empire, divided among local rulers, clans and monastic centres during the era of fragmentation and Buddhist revival.

On its lands while it lasted

• Hotan (c. 888 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Khotan (888–1006).
• Tea Horse Road (c. 1000–1950 CE): Mountain trails over which porters and mule caravans carried brick tea from Sichuan and Yunnan to Tibet, exchanged for Tibetan horses, for roughly a thousand years.

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