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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Max Oidtmann, Max (Professor Oidtmann, Oidtmann Max
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2023
• EAN: 9780231184076
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18407-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Asian History, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese history