The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China
by Peter Schwieger
Book · Hardcover · 2015 · Condition: very good
$52.04
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About this book
A political history by Peter Schwieger (Columbia University Press, 2015) of the Tibetan institution of reincarnation (trulku). It follows how the system developed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and how the Chinese emperors tried to control it, as part of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Qing court.
Seller's notes
Preowned book with wear and signs of use
- Author
- Peter Schwieger
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 368
- Subject
- Dalai Lamas; Reincarnation -- Buddhism; Tibet (China) -- Politics and government; Tibet (China) -- Relations -- China
- ISBN
- 9780231168526
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