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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Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Map: Tibet and Tibetan Buddhist Activity in China; Introduction; Countering Nationalist Historiography; Transitions: Making National, Going Global; 1. Imperial Traditions; Traditions Linking Tibetan Buddhists and Dynastic Rulers; Tibetan Buddhist Intermediaries at the Qing Court; Traditions That Divided Tibet from China Proper; 2. Global Forces in Asia (1870s-1910s); Western Imperialist Commercial Interests in Tibet
- Chinese Nationalist Strategies: Designs on Tibet and the Tibetan ResponseRacial Ideology in China; 3. Buddhism as a Pan-Asian Religion (1890s-1928); Religious Differences in Republican China; The Shared Interests of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhists; The Origins of Chinese Interest in Tibetan Buddhist Teachers and Practices; Tibetan Lamas Teach in China; Chinese Monks Study in Tibet; 4. Overcoming Barriers Between China and Tibet (1929-1931); Barriers to Chinese Studying Tibetan Buddhism; Forging New Links: Lamas Assist Chinese Monks; Sichuan Laity Elicits Government Involvement
- The Indigenization of Tibetan Buddhism Among the ChinesePostscript: Thoughts on the Present and the Legacy of the Past; The Legacy of the Past; Echoes of Imperialism; Appendix 1: Institutions Associated with Tibetan Buddhism in China; Appendix 2: Correct Tibetan Spellings; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- The Political Monk:Taixu5. The Failure of Racial and Nationalist Ideologies (1928-1932); The Panchen Lama's Early Offices in China; The Politicization of Lamas' Roles in China (1929-1930); Secular Educational Institutions; Sino-Tibetan Dialogue on Chinese Terms; Failed Rhetoric:Tibetan Autonomy Denied; 6. The Merging of Secular and Religious Systems (1931-1935); Renewed Sino-Tibetan Dialogue on Tibetan Terms; The Zenith of Tibetan Buddhist Activity in China; Political Propaganda Missions by Lamas; 7. Linking Chinese and Tibetan Cultures (1934-1950s); Hybridized Educational Institutions