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Forging the Golden Urn - The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet (Hardcover)
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Forging the Golden Urn - The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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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 ability of the Dalai Lama and
the Tibetan government-in-exile to independently identify
reincarnations. In so doing, they elevated a long-forgotten
ceremony into a controversial symbol of Chinese sovereignty in
Tibet. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann ventures into the
polyglot world of the Qing empire in search of the origins of the
golden urn tradition. He seeks to understand the relationship
between the Qing state and its most powerful partner in Inner
Asia—the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. Why did the Qianlong
emperor invent the golden urn lottery in 1792? What ability did the
Qing state have to alter Tibetan religious and political
traditions? What did this law mean to Qing rulers, their advisors,
and Tibetan Buddhists? Working with both the Manchu-language
archives of the empire’s colonial bureaucracy and the chronicles
of Tibetan elites, Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic
technology—a lottery for assigning administrative posts—was
exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire
and transformed into a ritual for identifying and authenticating
reincarnations. Forging the Golden Urn sheds new light on how the
empire’s frontier officers grappled with matters of sovereignty,
faith, and law and reveals the role that Tibetan elites played in
the production of new religious traditions in the context of Qing
rule.
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