TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oidtmann,Max
TI  - Forging the golden urn: the Qing Empire and the politics and the politics of reincarnation in Tibet 
T2  - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
SN  - 9780231545303
AV  - DS786 .F674 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Reincarnation
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - China
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - History
KW  - Rituals
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The royal regulations --; Shamanic colonialism --; Amdowas speaking in code --; Conclusion : paradoxes of the urn and the limits of empire; 2; b
N2  - "In 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile to independently identify reincarnations. In so doing, they elevated a long-forgotten ceremony into a controversial symbol of Chinese sovereignty in Tibet. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann ventures to the polyglot world of the Qing empire in search of the origins of the golden urn tradition. He seeks to understand the relationship between the Qing state and its most powerful partner in Inner Asia--the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. Why did the Qianlong emperor invent the golden urn lottery in 1792? What ability did the Qing state have to alter Tibetan religious and political traditions? What did this law mean to Qing rulers, their advisors, and Tibetan Buddhists? Working with both the Manchu-language archives of the empire's colonial bureaucracy and the chronicles of Tibetan elites, Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology--a lottery for assigning administrative posts--was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for identifying and authenticating reincarnations. Forging the Golden Urn sheds new light on how the empire's frontier officers grappled with matters of sovereignty, faith, and law and reveals the role that Tibetan elites played in the production of new religious traditions in the context of Qing colonialism"--
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