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Tibetan feudalism is much similar in land ownership and government organization to European feudalism, characterized by the same labor leasing system, obtaining land by hard work and the close relationship of land ownership with the political position. In Tibet and Europe, there are few differences in the unit of production and the style of labor. In European feudalism society, the king, nobles and the upper classes of the Christian church were the feudal lords. While in Tibet, the three major lords, or the dominant class, were government officials, nobles and upper-class Lamas. The European Christian church obtained manors and land by presentation and bestowal, the same way the Tibetan monasteries acquired them. With the establishment of European feudalism, people lost their land and freedom gradually and were downgraded to serfs are an appendage to the land of their masters, having no personal freedom at all. On the basis of the same characteristics of old Tibet and European feudal society, including land ownership and obtaining income labor, their nature is clearly seen. Under the system farmers became serfs appended to land and their masters.
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