Yugurs

The local Tanguts and Yellow Yugurs living there followed predominantly the Tibetan forms of Buddhism.

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 3 Tibetan Lamas and Mongol Patrons 2009

Anyway, you data of the number of teeth men and women have only go back 1,000 years and leave out data from the southern tip of East Timor and the Muslim minorities among the Yugurs of Ningxia.

Matthew Yglesias » The Inconvenient Truth: Inconvenient! 2007

Tsongka (Tsong-kha), which lasted in the Kokonor region of Amdo until 1182 the city states the Yellow Yugurs (866 – 1028) in the Gansu Corridor

A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire 2009

The Yugurs are surely all Buddhists or they would not be Yugurs?

Matthew Yglesias » The Inconvenient Truth: Inconvenient! 2007

After Yuanhao completed the Tangut conquest of the Yellow Yugurs in 1034, Yugur and Uighur cultural influence on the Tanguts began to grow.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 17 Tangut, Tibet, and Northern Song China in the Eleventh Century 2006

Under the greatest Tangut king, Yuanhao (Yüan-hao) (r. 1031 - 1048), the Tanguts not only completed their conquest of the Yellow Yugurs, but took as well the territory from Dunhuang to the Qarakhanid border at Khotan.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 17 Tangut, Tibet, and Northern Song China in the Eleventh Century 2006

The Yugurs and Uighurs continued to help with religious affairs, also translating into Tangut additional Buddhist texts from Sanskrit and Tibetan, but only occasionally from Uighur itself.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 17 Tangut, Tibet, and Northern Song China in the Eleventh Century 2006

Using this script, the Yugurs and Uighurs, having had experience with the Khitans, helped the Tanguts translate into their language not only Han Chinese Bud­dhist, but also Confu­cian texts useful for statecraft.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 17 Tangut, Tibet, and Northern Song China in the Eleventh Century 2006

It was also because, initially, the Tanguts were at war with the Yellow Yugurs and the Tsongka Tibetans, the major alternative source of scriptures now that India was no longer a possibility.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 17 Tangut, Tibet, and Northern Song China in the Eleventh Century 2006

In 1029, one year after Deming had begun his conquest of the Yellow Yugurs, the Tanut emperor, having studied Buddhism as a child, had sent a delegation to the Northern Song court with an offering of seventy horses, requesting a copy of this canon.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 17 Tangut, Tibet, and Northern Song China in the Eleventh Century 2006