Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet

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 i...

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Main Author: Oidtmann, Max (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Columbia University Press 2018
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Series/Journal:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Oidtmann, Max: Forging the Golden Urn : The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. - New York : Columbia University Press,c2018

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