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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Oidtmann, Max
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| Publisher: |
Columbia University Press
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| Date: |
03/14/2023
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In
Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.
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