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 into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Max Oidtmann, Max (Professor Oidtmann, Oidtmann Max
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.01.2023
• EAN: 9780231184076
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18407-6
• Seiten: 352
• Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Asian History, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese history