Sources of Mongolian Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sources of Mongolian Buddhism write by Vesna A. Wallace. This book was released on 2020-01-06. Sources of Mongolian Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite Mongolia's centrality to East Asian history and culture, Mongols themselves have often been seen as passive subjects on the edge of the Qing formation or as obedient followers of so-called "Tibetan Buddhism," peripheral to major literary, religious, and political developments. But in fact Mongolian Buddhists produced multi-lingual and genre-bending scholastic and ritual works that profoundly shaped historical consciousness, community identification, religious knowledge, and practices in Mongolian lands and beyond. In Sources of Mongolian Buddhism, a team of leading Mongolian scholars and authors have compiled a collection of original Mongolian Buddhist works--including ritual texts, poetic prayers and eulogies, legends, inscriptions, and poems--for the first time in any European language.
A Monastery in Time
A Monastery in Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Monastery in Time write by Caroline Humphrey. This book was released on 2013-07-05. A Monastery in Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Often overlooked in Buddhist studies, Mongolian Buddhism is an impressively self-sustaining tradition whose founding lama, the Third Mergen Gegen, transformed Tibetan Buddhism into an authentic counterpart using the Mongolian language. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Humphrey and Ujeed show how lamas have struggled to keep Mergen Gegen’s vision alive through tremendous political upheaval, and how such upheaval has inextricably fastened politics to religion for many of today’s practicing monks. Exploring the various ways Mongolian Buddhists have attempted to link the past, present, and future, Humphrey and Ujeed offer a compelling study of the interplay between the individual and the state, tradition and history.
Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society
Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society write by Vesna A. Wallace. This book was released on 2015. Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buddhism in Mongolia explores the unique historical and cultural elements of Mongolian Buddhism while challenging its stereotyped image as a mere replica of Tibetan Buddhism. The book illuminates the historical, social, and cultural contexts within which Buddhism has operated as a major social and cultural force among the Mongols.
Our Great Qing
Our Great Qing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Great Qing write by Johan Elverskog. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Our Great Qing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although it is generally believed that the Manchus controlled the Mongols through their patronage of Tibetan Buddhism, scant attention has been paid to the Mongol view of the Qing imperial project. In contrast to other accounts of Manchu rule, Our Great Qing focuses not only on what images the metropole wished to project into Mongolia, but also on what images the Mongols acknowledged themselves. Rather than accepting the Manchu's use of Buddhism, Johan Elverskog begins by questioning the static, unhistorical, and hegemonic view of political life implicit in the Buddhist explanation. By stressing instead the fluidity of identity and Buddhist practice as processes continually developing in relation to state formations, this work explores how Qing policies were understood by Mongols and how they came to see themselves as Qing subjects.
Enlightenment and the Gasping City
Enlightenment and the Gasping City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enlightenment and the Gasping City write by Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko. This book was released on 2019-06-15. Enlightenment and the Gasping City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.
