Forging the golden urn : the Qing Empire and the politics and the politics of reincarnation in Tibet /
"In 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| Edice: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1897287 |
Obsah:
- The royal regulations
- Shamanic colonialism
- Amdowas speaking in code
- Conclusion : paradoxes of the urn and the limits of empire.