Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa
Brenton SullivanBuilding a Religious Empire presents an account of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism during its expansion and consolidation of power from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, examining the extraordinary effort Geluk lamas put into establishing institutional frameworks to standardize monastic life.
Building a Religious Empire presents an account of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism during its expansion and consolidation of power from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, examining the extraordinary effort Geluk lamas put into establishing institutional frameworks to standardize monastic life.
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Yıl:
2020
Yayımcı:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
304
ISBN 10:
0812297679
ISBN 13:
9780812297676
Dosya:
PDF, 9.49 MB
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english, 2020