Edgepedia

Tibetan metal sculpture

Tibetan metal sculpture: bronze and brass Buddhist and Bon statuary made by lost-wax casting and repoussé, consecrated with sealed contents, studied non-destructively by neutron imaging.

Tibetan occupation of Dunhuang

The Tibetan occupation of Dunhuang was the period from 786 to 848 when the Tibetan Empire ruled the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang, until Zhang Yichao expelled the Tibetan garrison.

Tibetan Plateau (青藏高原), the “Roof of the World” and “Third Pole”: Earth's highest, largest plateau (~2.5 million km², average ~4 km), formed by the India–Eurasia collision and headwaters of Asia's great rivers.

Oct 15, 2026

Tibetan Plateau heat low

The Tibetan Plateau heat low is the shallow surface low-pressure system that forms over the Tibetan Plateau in boreal summer, driven by heating of the elevated surface.

Tibetan rug weaving

Tibetan rug weaving is the craft of making knotted-pile wool carpets on the Tibetan Plateau, used for seating, sleeping, and ritual, and carried into exile in Nepal after 1959.

Sep 23, 2026

Tibetan sack of Chang'an

The Tibetan sack of Chang'an (吐蕃陷長安) was the capture of the Tang capital Chang'an by Tibetan forces in 763, when Emperor Daizong fled to Shanzhou.

Tibetan script

Tibetan script (བོད་ཡིག, bod yig), a Brahmi-derived abugida created in the 7th century under Songtsen Gampo, credited to Thumi Sambhota; 30 consonants, tsheg-delimited syllables, uchen and u-mey styles, used for Tibetan, Dzongkha, and Himalayan languages, Unicode block U+0F00–0FFF.

Tibetan Terrier

Tibetan Terrier (Dokhi Apso, Tsang Apso): a medium-sized Tibetan companion dog, not a true terrier, with snowshoe feet and a profuse double coat; monastery-raised, recognized by the AKC in 1973.

Tibetan Traditional Medicine

Tibetan Traditional Medicine, known in Tibetan as Sowa Rigpa, is a codified healing system from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau built on three principles: rLung, Tripa, and Badkan.

Tibetan woodblock printing

Tibetan woodblock printing, or xylography, reproduces Tibetan-language texts and images from pages carved in reverse relief on wooden blocks, spreading widely from the fifteenth century onward.

Sep 23, 2026

Tibetan–Tang peace treaty of 821 (Changqing alliance)

The Tibetan–Tang peace treaty of 821 (长庆会盟), known as the Changqing alliance, was a peace agreement between the Tang dynasty and the Tibetan Empire, concluded by 823.

Tibetan–Uyghur wars

The Tibetan–Uyghur wars were late eighth and early ninth century conflicts between the Tibetan Empire and the Uyghur Khaganate, fought mainly over Beshbaliq and the Tarim Basin trade routes.

Tibetic languages

Tibetic languages: family of over 50 languages descended from Old Tibetan, spoken in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and China; often mutually unintelligible varieties formerly called Tibetan dialects.

Tibeto-Burman languages

Tibeto-Burman languages are the over 250 non-Chinese members of Sino-Tibetan, spanning southern China, the Himalayas, northeast India, and Southeast Asia, with object-before-verb order and debated internal subgrouping.

Tibia

Tibia (shin bone): the larger, medial of the two leg bones, second longest in the body after the femur. Forms the knee joint with the femur and the ankle joint with the fibula and talus; bears body weight.

Tibial aplasia-ectrodactyly syndrome

Tibial aplasia-ectrodactyly syndrome, also called SHFLD (split-hand/foot malformation with long bone deficiency, OMIM 119100), is a rare autosomal dominant limb malformation combining ectrodactyly with tibial aplasia or hypoplasia, often caused by 17p13.3 BHLHA9 duplications with incomplete penetrance.

Tibial hemimelia-polysyndactyly-triphalangeal thumb syndrome

Tibial hemimelia-polysyndactyly-triphalangeal thumb syndrome (THPTTS, Werner mesomelic syndrome, OMIM 188740) is a rare ZRS-related dysostosis with triphalangeal thumbs, polysyndactyly, and absent or hypoplastic tibiae.

Tibial muscular dystrophy

Tibial muscular dystrophy (TMD, Udd myopathy, distal titinopathy) is an adult-onset autosomal dominant distal myopathy from TTN titin mutations, common in Finland (1/5,000), causing ankle dorsiflexor weakness with spared extensor digitorum brevis and no cardiomyopathy.

Tibial nerve

Tibial nerve: terminal branch of the sciatic nerve (L4–S3) supplying motor and sensory innervation to the posterior leg and plantar foot; passes through the tarsal tunnel, dividing into medial and lateral plantar nerves; tarsal tunnel syndrome is its main entrapment.

Tibial plateau fracture

Tibial plateau fracture, also called proximal tibia articular fracture, is a break of the knee's tibial joint surface, about 1% of all fractures, classified by Schatzker types I-VI and treated operatively or nonoperatively depending on displacement.

Tibialis anterior muscle

Tibialis anterior (tibialis anticus), largest muscle of the leg's anterior compartment; dorsiflexes ankle and inverts foot; originates on lateral tibia and interosseous membrane, inserts on medial cuneiform and first metatarsal, innervated by deep fibular nerve (L4, L5).

Tibialis posterior muscle

Tibialis posterior (musculus tibialis posterior), deepest muscle of the leg's deep posterior compartment; originates from tibia, fibula, and interosseous membrane, inserts on navicular, cuneiforms, cuboid, and metatarsals 2-4; plantarflexes, inverts, and supports the medial arch; tibial nerve L4-L5.

Tibiao Butterfly House

Tibiao Butterfly House is a small privately run butterfly zoo in Brgy. Importante, Tibiao, Antique, Philippines, started in 2010; it breeds endemic butterflies, charges PhP 50, and sells butterfly-decorated clock souvenirs.

Tibidabo

Tibidabo: 512 m Barcelona hill, highest point of the Collserola range, home to the 1901 amusement park (second oldest in Europe) and the Sacred Heart basilica; name means "I shall give you".