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008			180705t20182018nyuab ob 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780231545303 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	1	0	_aDS786 _b.F674 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aOidtmann, Max, _e1
245	1	0	_aForging the golden urn : _bthe Qing Empire and the politics and the politics of reincarnation in Tibet / _cMax Oidtmann.
246	3	0	_aQing Empire and the politics and the politics of reincarnation in Tibet
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (330 pages) : _billustrations, map.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aThe royal regulations -- _tShamanic colonialism -- _tAmdowas speaking in code -- _tConclusion : paradoxes of the urn and the limits of empire.
520	0		_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aReincarnation _xBuddhism _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aBuddhism _zChina _zTibet Autonomous Region _xHistory.
650		0	_aBuddhism _zChina _zTibet Autonomous Region _xRituals.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1897287&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell