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Common Ground - Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia (Hardcover)
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Common Ground - Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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The Qing empire and the Dalai Lama-led Geluk School of Tibetan
Buddhism came into contact in the eighteenth century. Their
interconnections would shape regional politics and the geopolitical
history of Inner Asia for centuries to come. In Common Ground, Lan
Wu analyzes how Tibetan Buddhists and the Qing imperial rulers
interacted and negotiated as both sought strategies to expand their
influence in eighteenth-century Inner Asia. In so doing, she
recasts the Qing empire, seeing it not as a monolithic project of
imperial administration but as a series of encounters among
different communities. Wu examines a series of interconnected sites
in the Qing empire where the influence of Tibetan Buddhism played a
key role, tracing the movement of objects, flows of peoples, and
circulation of ideas in the space between China and Tibet. She
identifies a transregional Tibetan Buddhist knowledge network,
which provided institutional, pragmatic, and intellectual common
ground for both polities. Wu draws out the voices of lesser-known
Tibetan Buddhists, whose writings and experiences evince an
alternative Buddhist space beyond the state. She highlights
interactions between Mongols and Tibetans within the Qing empire,
exploring the creation of a Buddhist Inner Asia. Wu argues that
Tibetan Buddhism occupied a central-but little understood-role in
the Qing vision of empire. Revealing the interdependency of two
expanding powers, Common Ground sheds new light on the entangled
histories of political, social, and cultural ties between Tibet and
China.
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