Tibetan Buddhists in the making of modern China /
Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work, Gray Tuttle reveals the surprising role Buddhism and Buddhist leaders played in the development of the modern Chinese state and in fosterin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2005
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| Summary: | Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work, Gray Tuttle reveals the surprising role Buddhism and Buddhist leaders played in the development of the modern Chinese state and in fostering relations between Tibet and China from the Republican period (1912-1949) to the early years of Communist rule. Beyond exploring interactions between Buddhists and politicians in Tibet and China, Tuttle offers new insights on the impact of modern ideas of nationalism, race, and religion in |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 337 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index |
| ISBN: | 0231508808 9780231508803 |