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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
Oidtmann, Max (Professor, Insitute of Sinology, LMU Munich)
Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Oidtmann, Max (Professor, Insitute of Sinology, LMU Munich)
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.
352 pages, 16 images
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 14, 2023 |
ISBN13 | 9780231184076 |
Publishers | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 152 × 228 × 23 mm · 494 g |