Monastery in Time - The Making of Mongolian Buddhism

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Humphrey is professor emerita and director of the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge. She is the author or coauthor of twenty previous books! most recently Urban Life in Post-Soviet Central Asia. Hurelbaatar Ujeed founded the Hurelbaatar Institute for Mongolian Studies at the Inner Mongolia Normal University and is senior research associate in the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext Describes the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery - the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia - from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution! the authors tell a story of religious formation! suppression! and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Zusammenfassung Describes the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery - the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia - from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution! the authors tell a story of religious formation! suppression! and survival over a history that spans three centuries.

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• Authors: Caroline Humphrey, Caroline Ujeed Humphrey, Humphrey Caroline, HUMPHREY CAROLINE UJEED HURELBAA, Hurelbaatar Ujeed, Hurelbaatar Humphrey Ujeed, Ujeed Hurelbaatar
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2013
• EAN: 9780226031873
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03187-3
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Monasticism, Mongolia, Buddhism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious communities and monasticism, Religious communities & monasticism