| Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the Iats, 2003. Volume 3: Power, Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteen Contributor(s): Cuevas, Bryan, Schaeffer, Kurtis |
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ISBN: 9004153519 ISBN-13: 9789004153516 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $122.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: This volume focuses upon the relationships between the past and the present evoked in Tibetan literature, offering diverse perspectives on a critical period when Tibetans found themselves caught up in Central Eurasian struggles for power and territorial control. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 951.503 |
| LCCN: 2006047580 |
| Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Proceedings of the Tenth S |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.55" W x 9.7" (1.19 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. The volume highlights the various ways Tibetan historians, biographers, and Buddhist scholars during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries succeeded in the task of reinventing and reinforcing their respective traditions. |