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.

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Max Oidtmann, Max (Professor Oidtmann, Oidtmann Max
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 17.01.2023
• EAN: 9780231184076
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18407-6
• Pages: 352
• Thème: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Asian History, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese history