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Labrang Monastery - A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958 (Hardcover, New)
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Labrang Monastery - A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
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The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended
support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan
history. This crucially important and little-studied community is
on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu
Province, in close proximity to Chinese, Mongol, and Muslim
communities. It is Tibetan but located in China; it was founded by
Mongols, and associated with Muslims. Its wide-ranging Tibetan
religious institutions are well established and serve as the
foundations for the community's social and political
infrastructures. The Labrang community's borderlands location, the
prominence of its religious institutions, and the resilience and
identity of its nomadic and semi-nomadic cultures were factors in
the growth and survival of the monastery and its enormous estate.
This book tells the story of the status and function of the Tibetan
Buddhist religion in its fully developed monastic and public
dimensions. It is an interdisciplinary project that examines the
history of social and political conflict and compromise between the
different local ethnic groups. The book presents new perspectives
on Qing Dynasty and Republican-era Chinese politics, with
far-reaching implications for contemporary China. It brings a new
understanding of Sino-Tibetan-Mongol-Muslim histories and
societies. This volume will be of interest to undergraduate and
graduate student majors in Tibetan and Buddhist studies, in Chinese
and Mongol studies, and to scholars of Asian social and political
studies.
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