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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966155103321

Titolo

Power, politics, and the reinvention of tradition : Tibet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : PIATS 2003 : Tibetan studies : proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 / / edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006

ISBN

1-281-40044-0

9786611400446

90-474-1082-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Brill's Tibetan studies library, , 1568-6183 ; ; v. 10/3

Altri autori (Persone)

CuevasBryan J. <1967->

SchaefferKurtis R

Disciplina

951/.5032

Soggetti

Tibet Autonomous Region (China) History Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Power, politics, and religion -- 2. The reinvention of tradition.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume focuses upon the relationships between the past and the present evoked in Tibetan historiography, ritual literature, and Buddhist esoteric writings. It offers diverse perspectives on a critical period in Tibet's history when Tibetans found themselves caught up in the tides of political turmoil and forced into the center of a much larger Central Eurasian struggle for power and territorial control between the Manchu rulers of the Qing empire and the Mongols of the north by focusing on the various ways Tibetan historians, biographers, and scholars of all sorts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries succeeded in this task of reinventing and reinforcing their respective traditions.