Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China

Name: Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China
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ISBN: 9780231134460

ISBN-10: 0231134460

ISBN-13: 9780231134460

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gray Tuttle

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Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work, Gray Tuttle reveals the surprising role Buddhism and Buddhist leaders played in the development of the modern Chinese state and in fostering relations between Tibet and China from the Republican period (1912-1949) to the early years of Communist rule. Beyond exploring interactions between Buddhists and politicians in Tibet and China, Tuttle offers new insights on the impact of modern ideas of nationalism, race, and religion in East Asia. After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, the Chinese Nationalists, without the traditional…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/26/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Gray Tuttle is Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.



Map: Tibet and Tibetan Buddhist Activity in China Introduction Countering Nationalist Historiography Transitions: Making National, Going Global



Imperial Traditions Traditions Linking Tibetan Buddhists and Dynastic Rulers Tibetan Buddhist Intermediaries at the Qing Court Traditions That Divided Tibet from China Proper



Global Forces in Asia (1870s-1910s)


Western Imperialist Commercial Interests in Tibet


Chinese Nationalist Strategies: Designs on Tibet and the Tibetan Response Racial Ideology in China



Buddhism as a Pan-Asian Religion (1890s-1928)


The Shared Interests of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhists


The Origins of ChineseInterest in Tibetan


Buddhist Teachers and Practices


Tibetan Lamas Teach in China


Chinese Monks Study in Tibet



Overcoming Barriers Between China and Tibet (1929-1931) Barriers to Chinese Studying


Tibetan Buddhism Forging New Links: Lamas Assist Chinese Monks Sichuan Laity Elicits


Government Involvement The Political Monk: Taixu



The Failure of Racial and Nationalist Ideologies (1928-1932) The Politicization of Lamasï¿½


Roles in China Secular Educational Institutions Sino-Tibetan Secular Dialogue on Chinese


Terms Failed Rhetoric: Tibetan Autonomy Denied



The Merging of Secular and Religious Systems (1931-1935) Renewed Sino-Tibetan


Dialogue on Tibetan Terms The Zenith of Tibetan Buddhist Activity in China Political


Propaganda Missions by Lamas



Linking Chinese and Tibetan Cultures (1934-1950s) Hybridized Educational Institutions


The Indigenization of Tibetan Buddhism among the Chinese Postscript: Thoughts on the Present and the Legacy of the Past The Legacy of the Past Echoes of Imperialism



Institutions Associated with Tibetan Buddhism in China



Correct Tibetan Spellings