Meaning of Tibetanization | Babel Free

Definitions

The process by which someone or something becomes or is made more Tibetan, or an instance of this process.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“There is no doubt that the first and most obvious one is the immediate "Tibetanization" of the migrants. They come seeking favor and tolerance from the members of the community, not as conquerers, so that both convenience and policy favor the adoption of at least a part of the Tibetan garb and as much of Tibetan usage as they can without running counter to deep-seated Chinese prejudices.”

“They accepted Tibetan ways of thinking, of doing things, and adopted Tibetan speech and clothing, not only as matters of material convenience, but also of culture expediency in order to win favor and tolerance from the Tibetans. The degree of Tibetanization varied from that of the Chinese boy adopted by a Tibetan family to the Chinese immigrant family which sought to maintain its own Chinese culture.”

“The three separate manuscripts present us in several instances with entirely disparate readings, with even the interspersed Tibetan phrases being so garbled that it remains impossible to determine whether or not they were ever intelligible. Some, perhaps, are Tibetanizations of earlier Sanskrit or Prakrit forms now irretrievably lost, for there is about the entire passage a definite aura of antiquity.”

“The majority of these public servants are locals, which reflects 50 years of the Chinese Tibetanization policy.”

CEFR level