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 i...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Oidtmann, Max: Forging the Golden Urn : The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. - New York : Columbia University Press,c2018 |
| 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 Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Act I: The Royal Regulations -- Act II: Shamanic Colonialism -- Act III: Amdowas Speaking in Code -- Conclusion: Paradoxes of the Urn and the Limits of Empire -- Chronology of Key Events -- List of Usages of the Golden Urn Ritual -- Tibetan Orthographic Equivalents -- Translation of the Qianlong Emperor's Discourse on Lamas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 0231545304 |