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A monastery in time : the making of Mongolian Buddhism
- Title
- A monastery in time : the making of Mongolian Buddhism / Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed.
- Author
- Humphrey, Caroline
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
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- Additional Authors
- Hürelbaatar, Ujeed
- Description
- xiii, 426 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery - the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia - from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hurelbaatar Ujeed tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Often overlooked in Buddhist studies, Mongolian Buddhism is an impressively self-sustaining tradition whose founding lama, the Third Mergen Gegen, transformed Tibetan Buddhism into an authentic counterpart using the Mongolian language. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Humphrey and Ujeed show how lamas have struggled to keep Mergen Gegen's vision alive through tremendous political upheaval, and how such upheaval has inextricably fastened politics to religion for many of today's practicing monks. Exploring the various ways Mongolian Buddhists have attempted to link the past, present, and future, Humphrey and Ujeed offer a compelling study of the interplay between the individual and the state, tradition and history. -- Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411) and index.
- Contents
- Buddhist life at Mergen -- Mergen Gegen and the arts of language -- Mergen Monastery and its landscape -- Duke Galdan, perspectives on the self in the Qing era -- Sülde : the "spirit of invincibility," its multiplicity and its secrets -- The afterlife of the 8th Mergen Gegen -- Sengge : a lama's knowledge and its vicissitudes -- The Chorji Lama : inheriting from the past in a new world -- Regroupings of laity -- Tradition and archivization -- Epilogue : dispersion and creation.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-6419
- ISBN
- 9780226031873 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 022603187X (cloth : alkaline paper)
- 9780226031903 (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 022603190X (paperback : alkaline paper)
- 9780226032061 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- 022603206X (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013002472
- 40022503342
- OCLC
- 809911046
- Author
- Humphrey, Caroline, author.
- Title
- A monastery in time : the making of Mongolian Buddhism / Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411) and index.
- Added Author
- Hürelbaatar, Ujeed, author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022503342
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6419