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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Tác giả chính: Oidtmann, Max (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Loạt:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1897287
Mục lục:
  • The royal regulations
  • Shamanic colonialism
  • Amdowas speaking in code
  • Conclusion : paradoxes of the urn and the limits of empire.