A Monastery in Time : The Making of Mongolian Buddhism /

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A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe 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, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed tell...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Humphrey, Caroline (Autor), Ujeed, Hurelbaatar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Temas:
Buddhism > China > Urad Zhongqi > History.
Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) > China > Urad Zhongqi.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
mongolia, buddhism, mergen monastery, qing, cultural revolution, religion, spirituality, suppression, politics, history, survival, social change, lama, gegen, tibet, monks, tradition, urad zhongqi, duke galdan, landscape, language, self, multiplicity, invincibility, sengge, afterlife, laity, sulde, dispersion, archives, nonfiction, monasticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Transliteration
  • Acknowledgments and a Note on the Writing of This Book
  • Introduction
  • 1. Buddhist Life at Mergen
  • 2. Mergen Gegen and the Arts of Language
  • 3. Mergen Monastery and Its Landscape
  • 4. Duke Galdan, Perspectives on the Self in the Qing Era
  • 5. Sülde: The "Spirit of Invincibility," Its Multiplicity and Its Secrets
  • 6. The Afterlife of the 8th Mergen Gegen
  • 7. Sengge: A Lama's Knowledge and Its Vicissitudes
  • 8. The Chorji Lama: Inheriting from the Past in a New World
  • 9. Regroupings of Laity
  • 10. Tradition and Archivization 341
  • Epilogue: Dispersion and Creation
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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