Forging the golden urn : the Qing Empire and the politics and the politics of reincarnation in Tibet /

"In 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in...

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Main Author: Oidtmann, Max (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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