Tibetan Muslims : a minority within a minority : from a Kashmiri Muslim immigration to Tibet to a Tibetan Muslim forced migration to India / Fabienne Le Houérou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Houérou, Fabienne, author.

Series:

Ethnologie (Lit (Firm)) ; Bd. 77.

Ethnologie (Lit (Firm)) ; volume 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Muslims.

Tibetans--India.

Tibetans.

Physical Description:

xi, 89 pages : map ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Lit, [2024]

Summary:

"This book focuses on the minority of Tibetan Muslims among the Tibetan Diaspora. Most scholars remain unaware of the Tibetan Muslim community or its associations with Buddhism and the Dalai Lama. As a religious and political leader, he is the embodiment of Tibetan space, territory, population, religion, and identity. The Western public has assumed a monolithic vision of Tibet as a pure Buddhist Theocracy. However, Tibet was impacted by other religions, i.e. Christianity and Islam. The 100.000 Tibetan refugees in India are one of the largest Tibetan Diaspora; the majority are Buddhist, and the Muslim minority is estimated at no more than a few hundred families. Tibetan Muslims constitute a minority within another Tibetan Buddhist minority of exiled Tibetans in India." -- Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-72).

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

9783643914453

3643914458

OCLC:

1451854902

Publisher Number:

9783643914453