Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
Max OidtmannA 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.
Year:
2018
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0231545304
ISBN 13:
9780231545303
File:
PDF, 7.53 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018