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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Humphrey, Caroline
Otros Autores: Hürelbaatar, Ujeed
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.