Title Common ground Tibetan Buddhist expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia Lan Wu

Published New York Columbia University Press [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) illustrations, maps Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Contents Acknowledgments -- Notes on transliteration and translation -- Introduction: Buddhist Inner Asia -- Campaigns -- Manufacturing -- Assemblies -- Governance -- Epilogue: A balancing act -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Historian Lan Wu explores the interdependency and entanglement of two expanding powers in the area known today as China. In the mid-seventeenth century, Qing-dynasty China (1644-1911) and the Dalai Lama-led Buddhist government of the Ganden Podrang (1642-1959) came into contact. Their interactions have shaped geopolitical history in China ever since. Their entwined histories launched long-standing struggles that modern Chinese states have had to face in terms of political legitimacy, equivocal nationalist rhetoric, and the astonishing power that religious institutions have amassed. Drawing on textual sources in four languages as well as on visual art, Common Ground considers the contours of China and Tibet's interaction beyond an exclusive focus on the driven state administration. The story of the Qing's imperial encounter is inseparable from its efforts to both promote and circumscribe Tibetan Buddhist knowledge assemblages. These efforts included people, ideas, objects, and practices. Buddhist knowledge production and circulation formed a cross-cultural knowledge network, which provided institutional, pragmatic, and intellectual common ground for both polities. Their entangled history produced a Qing empire full of vitality but fraught with predicaments, a situation with repercussions felt to this day"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2022) Subject Dgaʼ-ldan-pho-brang dynasty, 1642-1950 -- History SUBJECT Dgaʼ-ldan-pho-brang dynasty, 1642-1950 fast Subject HISTORY / Asia / China Diplomatic relations International relations Politics and government Qing Dynasty (China) SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024027 China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024078 China -- Politics and government -- 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024164 Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Foreign relations -- 17th century Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History -- 17th century Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and government -- 17th century China -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China Subject China China -- Tibet Autonomous Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021054368 ISBN 9780231556354 0231556357

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