Tibet+-+Art,+Literature+and+Music

 **[1] [2] **__**Art **__    **[2] **__**Literature **__ 
 * Most of the arts were derived from Buddhism.
 * Arts from the Bon religion were rare.
 * Popular art form is dance drama.
 * Most dance dramas originated from Bon, although Buddhist influenced.
 * Dance dramas performed by trained monks.
 * Usually performed at large monasteries.
 * Most Tibetan art from the time of the fall, were architectural styles.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">External influences evident in architecture.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Basic structure: solid stone buildings with inward-sloping walls and flat roofs.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Stupa is most well-known and persistent architectural them in Tibet.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A stupa was a domed structure originally used as funeral mounds or religious leaders, but later on were used to house Buddhist holy relics.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Srong-brtsan Sgam-po credited with introduction of written script for the Tibetan language.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Adaption of Indian Sanskrit alphabet.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Small parts of early literature reserved in Buddhist cave shrines.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Shrine found to contain: Dynastic chronicles, Bon ritual traditions, and early Buddhist texts.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Buddhism in Tibetan literature was well established by the 9th century.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">From that time on, most of all literature made by Buddhist monks.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">800-1200 period of “Great Translators”, Tibetan scholars translated Indian Buddhist texts.
 * <span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Tibetan literature began to expand, detach from Buddhist texts.


 * Works Cited:**

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> [1] "Tibet." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 10 May. 2009 < [|__http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/594898/Tibet__]  >.

[2] "Tibet (Xizang) >> 3. Tibetan Culture." Encyclopedia Americana. 2009. Grolier Online. 10 May 2009 < [|__http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0386030-03__]  >.