Building a religious empire : Tibetan Buddhism, bureaucracy, and the rise of the Gelukpa /
Building a Religious Empire presents an account of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism during its expansion and consolidation of power from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, examining the extraordinary effort Geluk lamas put into establishing institutional frameworks to stan...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Encounters with Asia.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Building a Religious Empire presents an account of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism during its expansion and consolidation of power from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, examining the extraordinary effort Geluk lamas put into establishing institutional frameworks to standardize monastic life. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812297676 0812297679 |