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Disclaimer: this map is not intended to challenge existing territorial boundaries or revise past historical events. This is just a product of the author's fantasy created for entertainment. All characters and events are fictitious and any resemblance is purely coincidental.

This is a cover of scenario #9 from here by talented Goliath-Maps .
Update (20/06/2020): added legend

Original text:
#9-Bod-
In the late 8th Century, a series of different rulers of the Tibetan empire ensured that Tibetan would remain united.
After half a millennium of Tibetan rule, the Bengal Delta region and the Tarim Basin were both hugely Tibetanified (in culture, language, and religion, though not in ethnicity).
By the year 2013, Tibet is the ‘Twin Kingdoms of Bod and Nanzhao’, having united dynastically with the Kingdom of Nanzhao which controls South-western China and much of OTL Laos and Burma (coastal Burma is part of Tibet). Tibetan rule over Kashmir and much of Central (OTL Kyrgyzstan in particular) has been solidified. The Bangla and Nepali regions are directly controlled from Lhasa. The independent states of the Indian subcontinent are mostly Tibetan vassals (Hinduism petered out, and now the Indian subcontinent is entirely Muslim or Buddhist). A different wave of alt-Mongol invasion in the 1500s successfully conquered Northern China, and North and South have been divided since (conveniently played off against one another by the Tibetans who’re slowing gobbling up more and more of China). Tibet’s colonial empire also includes Somalia and a chunk of Australia. Unlike our Tibet (or what an independent Tibet would look like), this Tibet’s leadership is nowadays fairly secular (though Buddhism may still dominate politically), as the government is ruled by national Kings rather than Lamas. The kingdom of Mahajayvai in Western Indonesia and Malaysia, is Buddhist and a strong Tibetan ally.
Much of the world is still dominated by European empires. In Europe, the first major butterfly was the failure of the Norman invasion of 1066, leading to a much more Germanic England (with an alphabet containing 30 letters!). Instead, the Normans were able to successfully unite France, and later create a united Italy. Germany in this world never successfully united, but Italy has been a united kingdom since 1312. The black plague was worse than in OTL, and produced much more radical changes in Europe (namely, technology actually went backwards for a brief time, but the importance of science was noticed far earlier, much of the older nobility lost its powers in peasant revolts that created much more constitutional governments). Although there is still a pope in Rome, and to this day the church is theoretically united, Ceasaropapism has been the norm and the church is anything but united.
Spain first discovered the Americas, and much of it is still controlled by Spain, while England (which directly includes Ireland and OTL Brazil, and is the puppet master of Scotland), France, Italy, and some of the German states control all of Africa, portions of the Middle East, and the areas of South-East Asia and Australia outside of Tibetan control. Nueva Catalonia, an alternate Canada of mixed Spanish and English heritage, is a minor power, if fairly isolationist. Russia is still backwards, very isolated from Europe, and has repeatedly been beaten by European coalitions, the Mongols of North China, and Tibetan-backed revolts of native Siberian peoples.
The world is still mostly under English, Spanish, French, Tibetan and Italian control (with approximately two-thirds of the world under those empires). The more or less openly racist intellectuals of Europe admire Tibet as one of the few non-western spots of true civilization in the world (indeed, many Westerners learn to read and write in Tibetan). Currently the second biggest economy in the world, Tibet is neck and neck with England. Tibetan Buddhist missionaries and Western Catholic missionaries travel the world (sometimes coming close to conflict).
While the other powers range from mildly right wing and definitively conservative to centrist (say, imagine the OTL U.S. politics of the 1920s), the Tibetan parliament is the only parliament with left wing parties (albeit still traditionalist). Tibet increasingly sees itself as the liberator of oppressed peoples, the motivator of science, and the bringer of Buddhism to the world (Tibet is more religious than the now secular governments of Europe, save for Spain and Italy).

Description
Disclaimer: this map is not intended to challenge existing territorial boundaries or revise past historical events. This is just a product of the author's fantasy created for entertainment. All characters and events are fictitious and any resemblance is purely coincidental.

This is a cover of scenario #9 from here by talented Goliath-Maps .
Update (20/06/2020): added legend

Original text:
#9-Bod-
In the late 8th Century, a series of different rulers of the Tibetan empire ensured that Tibetan would remain united.
After half a millennium of Tibetan rule, the Bengal Delta region and the Tarim Basin were both hugely Tibetanified (in culture, language, and religion, though not in ethnicity).
By the year 2013, Tibet is the ‘Twin Kingdoms of Bod and Nanzhao’, having united dynastically with the Kingdom of Nanzhao which controls South-western China and much of OTL Laos and Burma (coastal Burma is part of Tibet). Tibetan rule over Kashmir and much of Central (OTL Kyrgyzstan in particular) has been solidified. The Bangla and Nepali regions are directly controlled from Lhasa. The independent states of the Indian subcontinent are mostly Tibetan vassals (Hinduism petered out, and now the Indian subcontinent is entirely Muslim or Buddhist). A different wave of alt-Mongol invasion in the 1500s successfully conquered Northern China, and North and South have been divided since (conveniently played off against one another by the Tibetans who’re slowing gobbling up more and more of China). Tibet’s colonial empire also includes Somalia and a chunk of Australia. Unlike our Tibet (or what an independent Tibet would look like), this Tibet’s leadership is nowadays fairly secular (though Buddhism may still dominate politically), as the government is ruled by national Kings rather than Lamas. The kingdom of Mahajayvai in Western Indonesia and Malaysia, is Buddhist and a strong Tibetan ally.
Much of the world is still dominated by European empires. In Europe, the first major butterfly was the failure of the Norman invasion of 1066, leading to a much more Germanic England (with an alphabet containing 30 letters!). Instead, the Normans were able to successfully unite France, and later create a united Italy. Germany in this world never successfully united, but Italy has been a united kingdom since 1312. The black plague was worse than in OTL, and produced much more radical changes in Europe (namely, technology actually went backwards for a brief time, but the importance of science was noticed far earlier, much of the older nobility lost its powers in peasant revolts that created much more constitutional governments). Although there is still a pope in Rome, and to this day the church is theoretically united, Ceasaropapism has been the norm and the church is anything but united.
Spain first discovered the Americas, and much of it is still controlled by Spain, while England (which directly includes Ireland and OTL Brazil, and is the puppet master of Scotland), France, Italy, and some of the German states control all of Africa, portions of the Middle East, and the areas of South-East Asia and Australia outside of Tibetan control. Nueva Catalonia, an alternate Canada of mixed Spanish and English heritage, is a minor power, if fairly isolationist. Russia is still backwards, very isolated from Europe, and has repeatedly been beaten by European coalitions, the Mongols of North China, and Tibetan-backed revolts of native Siberian peoples.
The world is still mostly under English, Spanish, French, Tibetan and Italian control (with approximately two-thirds of the world under those empires). The more or less openly racist intellectuals of Europe admire Tibet as one of the few non-western spots of true civilization in the world (indeed, many Westerners learn to read and write in Tibetan). Currently the second biggest economy in the world, Tibet is neck and neck with England. Tibetan Buddhist missionaries and Western Catholic missionaries travel the world (sometimes coming close to conflict).
While the other powers range from mildly right wing and definitively conservative to centrist (say, imagine the OTL U.S. politics of the 1920s), the Tibetan parliament is the only parliament with left wing parties (albeit still traditionalist). Tibet increasingly sees itself as the liberator of oppressed peoples, the motivator of science, and the bringer of Buddhism to the world (Tibet is more religious than the now secular governments of Europe, save for Spain and Italy).