Forging the Golden Urn : : The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet / / Max Oidtmann.
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-exile...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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