Power, politics, and the reinvention of tradition: Tibet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006. 8vo, pp. vi, 215, [3]; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 10/3 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Twelve papers from PIATS 2003: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003. Managing Editor: Charles Ramble. "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 rules of the Qing empire and the Mongols of the north. This volume highlights the various ways Tibetan historians, biographers, and Buddhist scholars during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries succeeded in the task of reinventing and reinforcing their respective traditions" (publisher's blurb). Item #69134
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