Protests and uprisings in Tibet since 1950 The minor kingdoms and tribal states of the region were first united under Songtsen Gampo to form the Tibetan Empire in the seventh century CE Under the influence of his Chinese bride and first Nepali wife Bhrikuti, the Emperor converted to Buddhism and established it as the religion of Tibet. An influx of Chinese culture, the Indian alphabet, and Buddhist monks followed, combining with the native customs and animistic religion Bön to give birth to what has become today's ethnic Tibetan people and Tibetan Buddhism, also known as Lamaism, After the break-up of the Tibetan Empire in the mid-9th century,
S-form likely that the s-form is an overgeneralisation of the possessive suffix common in business names. S-form The s-form is the English language phenomenon of suffixing "-'s" or "-s" to business names where there is not one present in writing, predominantly in colloquial speech. This is particularly common with the names of supermarkets. For example "Tesco" could be converted to "Tesco's" in speech, "Safeway" to "Safeways", "Wal-Mart" to "Wal-Mart's", etc. Foreigners come across this form especially as concerns manufacturers; mere retailers like the above examples remain customers' and employees' conversation. For example, the firm Short Brothers (of Belfast) built the aircraft