The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
ISBN: 9780231538602
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Politics and government; Reincarnation -- Political aspects -- Tibet Region -- History;

Follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development

Peter Schwieger is professor of Tibetology and the head of the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. His current research focuses on the political and social history of Tibet based on archival material.

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