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Monastery in time : the making of Mongolian Buddhism / Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed

Author
Humphrey, Caroline
Published
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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1 online resource (pages .)
Additional Creators
Hürelbaatar, Ujeed
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Contents
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.
Summary
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 tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Often overlooked in Buddhist studies, Mongolian Buddhism is an impressively self-sustaining tradition whose founding lama, the Third Mergen Gegen, transformed Tibet.
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ISBN
9780226032061 (electronic bk.)
022603206X (electronic bk.)
1299677452
9781299677456
9780226031873
022603187X
9780226031903
022603190X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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