We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Max Oidtmann, an Assistant Professor of Asian History at Georgetown University Qatar. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China … [Read more...]
Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Max Oidtmann (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the … [Read more...]
