2.17 - Fragments of Knowledge
Apr 02, 2021•36 min
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Episode description
In which we look at legal and medical knowledge in the Tibetan Empire.
Tibet was a litigious society, and to remedy this, widespread use of contracts, legal documents and complex civil and criminal codes were used in order to make sense of it all. Combined with the deep medical traditions, borrowing from three distinct backgrounds, the Tibetan Empire's framework of knowledge - far more than any table of ranks for the ministers - was deeply intertwined with the average person's life.
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