# r3-b1-19

**Claim (as registered):** No holding institution in any holdout state will hold more Tibetan-tradition records than the single largest Tibetan institution in the one complete training state with a substantial Tibetan-exile institutional presence (roughly 53,700 records) -- UNLESS that holdout state is itself a recognized center of the Tibetan exile community.

**Proposed mechanism:** Record volume for a specific tradition is proposed to concentrate at institutions tied to a real diaspora/community presence, not at random. The claim explicitly names one holdout state as a genuinely live, at-risk test (rather than a safe restatement of the training pattern) because that state's official boundary may or may not include a historically Tibetan-Buddhist region, depending on how the source portal draws its own state facets.

**Scope:** Source: NAMAMI (India), a state-facetted manuscript-holdings portal (holdings, not origin -- every record is held-by, not produced-by, the state). Training: 11 states with a complete portal walk (~4.22M records: Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal). Holdout: 9 more states/union territories walked to completion after this claim was fixed (Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Haryana, Delhi, Manipur, Puducherry, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand), each landed as a complete, reconciled count before testing. All data comes from one portal, so survival across states shows stability within this portal's own cataloguing practice, not independently of it.

**Training-side evidence:** In the one training state with a substantial Tibetan-exile presence, tradition='tibetan' records are 77.28% of that state's total, and its single largest Tibetan institution holds roughly 53,700 of those records (a diaspora-linked religious/cultural institution).

**Holdout test and outcome:** At the flagged at-risk holdout state, the data DID include monasteries from the historically Tibetan-Buddhist region in question: the top Tibetan institution there held 951 records -- a real, non-trivial presence, but still far below the roughly-53,700 threshold. Every other holdout state (none recognized Tibetan-exile centers) cleared the threshold even more comfortably.

**Status:** Survived, including its one genuinely live sub-test.
