TY - BOOK ID - 101203616 TI - The early 20th century resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist world : studies in Central Asian Buddhism AU - Yumiko, Ishihama AU - McKay, Alex PY - 2022 SN - 9048553067 9463728643 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Buddhism KW - History. KW - Buddha and Buddhism KW - Lamaism KW - Ris-med (Lamaism) KW - Religions KW - Buddhist modernity, Central Asia, Tibet. KW - Dalai lamas KW - History KW - Lamas UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101203616 AB - The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Set in the final days of the Qing empire when Russian and British empires were expanding into Central Asia, this work examines the interplay of religious, economic and political power among peoples who acknowledged the religious authority of Tibet's Dalai Lama. It focuses on diplomatic initiatives involving the thirteenth Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist hierarchs during and after his exile in Mongolia and China, as well as his relations with Mongols, and with Buriat, Kalmyk, and other Russian Buddhists. It demonstrates how these factors shaped historical processes in the region, not least the reformulations of both group identity and political consciousness. ER -