Monastery in time : the making of Mongolian Buddhism /
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 tel...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Buddhist life at Mergen
- Mergen Gegen and the arts of language
- Mergen Monastery and its landscape
- Duke Galdan, perspectives on the self in the Qing era
- Sülde: the "spirit of victory," its multiplicity and its secrets
- The afterlife of the 8th Mergen Gegen
- Sengge: a lama's knowledge and its vicissitudes
- The Chorji Lama: inheriting from the past in a new world
- Regroupings of laity
- Tradition and archivization
- Epilogue: dispersion and creation.