Building a Religious Empire : Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa /
The vast majority of monasteries in Tibet and nearly all of the monasteries in Mongolia belong to the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism, best known through its symbolic head, the Dalai Lama. Historically, these monasteries were some of the largest in the world, and even today some Geluk monasteries h...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Encounters with Asia
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