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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar (10th : 2003 : Oxford, England)

Contributor:

Cuevas, Bryan J., 1967-

Schaeffer, Kurtis R.

Series:

Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 10/3.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History--Congresses.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Power, politics, and religion

2. The reinvention of tradition.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-40044-0

9786611400446

90-474-1082-3

OCLC:

290584449