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Forging the Golden Urn – The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Autor Max Oidtmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2023
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231184076
ISBN-10: 0231184077
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University


Notă biografică

Max Oidtmann is professor of Chinese history at the Institute for Sinology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Act I: The Royal Regulations
Act II: Shamanic Colonialism
Act III: Amdowas Speaking in Code
Conclusion: Paradoxes of the Urn and the Limits of Empire
Chronology of Key Events
List of Usages of the Golden Urn Ritual
Tibetan Orthographic Equivalents
Translation of the Qianlong Emperor¿s Discourse on Lamas
Notes
Bibliography
Index