Before the Democratic Reform of 1959 Tibet had long been a society languishing under a system of feudal serfdom which intertwined politics with religion,a society which was even darker than the European society of the Middle Ages.

• 西藏在1959年民主改革之前，是一个比欧洲中世纪还要黑暗的政教合一的封建农奴制社会。