Common Ground: Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia
Lan Wu
The Qing empire and the Dalai Lama-led Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism came into contact in the eighteenth century. Their interconnections would shape regional politics and the geopolitical history of Inner Asia for centuries to come. InCommon Ground, Lan Wu analyzes how Tibetan Buddhists and the Qing imperial rulers interacted and negotiated as both sought strategies to expand their influence in eighteenth-century Inner Asia. In so doing, she recasts the Qing empire, seeing it not as a monolithic project of imperial administration but as a series of encounters among different communities.
Wu examines a series of interconnected sites in the Qing empire where the influence of Tibetan Buddhism played a key role, tracing the movement of objects, flows of peoples, and circulation of ideas in the space between China and Tibet. She identifies a transregional Tibetan Buddhist knowledge network, which provided institutional, pragmatic, and intellectual common ground for both polities. Wu draws out the voices of lesser-known Tibetan Buddhists, whose writings and experiences evince an alternative Buddhist space beyond the state. She highlights interactions between Mongols and Tibetans within the Qing empire, exploring the creation of a Buddhist Inner Asia. Wu argues that Tibetan Buddhism occupied a central―but little understood―role in the Qing vision of empire. Revealing the interdependency of two expanding powers,Common Groundsheds new light on the entangled histories of political, social, and cultural ties between Tibet and China.
Wu examines a series of interconnected sites in the Qing empire where the influence of Tibetan Buddhism played a key role, tracing the movement of objects, flows of peoples, and circulation of ideas in the space between China and Tibet. She identifies a transregional Tibetan Buddhist knowledge network, which provided institutional, pragmatic, and intellectual common ground for both polities. Wu draws out the voices of lesser-known Tibetan Buddhists, whose writings and experiences evince an alternative Buddhist space beyond the state. She highlights interactions between Mongols and Tibetans within the Qing empire, exploring the creation of a Buddhist Inner Asia. Wu argues that Tibetan Buddhism occupied a central―but little understood―role in the Qing vision of empire. Revealing the interdependency of two expanding powers,Common Groundsheds new light on the entangled histories of political, social, and cultural ties between Tibet and China.
類別:
年:
2022
出版商:
Columbia University Press
語言:
english
頁數:
248
ISBN 10:
0231206178
ISBN 13:
9780231206174
系列:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
文件:
PDF, 13.11 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2022
Amazon 
Barnes & Noble 
Bookshop.org 
轉換文件
更多的搜索結果
其他特權 
最常見的術語
相關書單
