A Monastery on the Move : Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia / Tsultemin Uranchimeg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uranchimeg Tsultemin, Author.

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects--Mongolia.

Art.

Buddhism and state--Mongolia.

Buddhism and state.

Buddhist art--Mongolia.

Buddhist art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : 164 color and black and white illustrations

Contained In:

De Gruyter Plus.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Summary:

In 1639, while the Géluk School of the Fifth Dalai Lama and Qing emperors vied for supreme authority in Inner Asia, Zanabazar (1635-1723), a young descendent of Chinggis Khaan, was proclaimed the new Jebtsundampa ruler of the Khalkha Mongols. Over the next three centuries, the ger (yurt) erected to commemorate this event would become the mobile monastery Ikh Khüree, the political seat of the Jebtsundampas and a major center of Mongolian Buddhism. When the monastery and its surrounding structures were destroyed in the 1930s, they were rebuilt and renamed Ulaanbaatar, the modern-day capital of Mongolia.Based on little-known works of Mongolian Buddhist art and architecture, A Monastery on the Move presents the intricate and colorful history of Ikh Khüree and of Zanabazar, himself an eminent artist. Author Uranchimeg Tsultemin makes the case for a multifaceted understanding of Mongol agency during the Géluk's political ascendancy and the Qing appropriation of the Mongol concept of dual rulership (shashin tör) as the nominal "Buddhist Government." In rich conversation with heretofore unpublished textual, archaeological, and archival sources (including ritualized oral histories), Uranchimeg argues that the Qing emperors' "Buddhist Government" was distinctly different from the Mongol vision of sovereignty, which held Zanabazar and his succeeding Jebtsundampa reincarnates to be Mongolia's rightful rulers. This vision culminated in their independence from the Qing and the establishment of the Jebtsundampa's theocractic government in 1911. A ground-breaking work, A Monastery on the Move provides a fascinating, in-depth analysis and interpretation of Mongolian Buddhist art and its role in shaping borders and shifting powers in Inner Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

List of the Jebtsundampa Khutugtus (with modern Mongolian spellings)

Introduction. Mongolia's "Great Encampment," Ikh Khüree

Chapter One. Zanabazar: A Khalkha Ruler

Chapter Two. Zanabazar's Art and Works: The Organized Practice of Dharma and the Art of Imperial Tradition

Chapter Three. Why Zanabazar? A Géluk Disciple and the Jebtsundampa Ruler

Chapter Four. Jebtsundampa Portraiture: Enshrinement in "Third Space"

Chapter Five. Ikh Khüree: A Qing-Géluk City for the Khalkha Mongols

Chapter Six. The Jebtsundampas' Buddhist Government

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

9780824885700

OCLC:

1228033741

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