The generalization of Donsker's theorem from $N$-dimensional Euclidean space to general Riemannian manifolds has been worked out by Erik Jørgensen, <A HREF="http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF00533088">The Central Limit Problem for Geodesic Random Walks</A>. > The purpose of the present work is to > consider the problem of defining the > concept of a random walk in a general > Riemannian manifold ${\cal M}$, and to > investigate the behavior in the limit > of a sequence of such random walks. It > will be shown that such a sequence, > under reasonable assumptions, > converges to a diffusion process in > ${\cal M}$, and in particular Brownian motion > processes will be obtained as limits > of sequences of random walks with > identically distributed steps. The > results which we arrive at in this > paper are general versions of > well-known classical results > concerning the transition from random > walks to diffusion processes, for > instance: the central limit theorem > and Donsker's theorem.