Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China

Name: Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China
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ISBN: 9780231134477

ISBN-10: 0231134479

ISBN-13: 9780231134477

Edition: 2007

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: $34.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.48" wide x 8.94" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.166

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



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