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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet

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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet - Oidtmann, Max
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A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.

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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet 2023, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231184076

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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet 2018, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231184069

Hardcover