Forging the golden urn the Qing Empire and the politics and the politics of reincarnation in Tibet
A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY ; Chichester, West Sussex
Columbia University Press
2018, ©2018
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations. |
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| Physical Description: | XVII, 330 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-54530-3 0-231-54530-4 |