Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the Iats, 2003. Volume 3: Power, Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteen

by Kurtis R. Schaeffer

This volume focuses upon the relationships between the past and the present evoked in Tibetan historiography, ritual literature, and Buddhist esoteric writings. It offers diverse perspectives on a critical period in Tibet's history when Tibetans found themselves caught up in the tides of political turmoil and forced into the center of a much larger Central Eurasian struggle for power and territorial control between the Manchu rulers of the Qing empire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004153519
• ISBN13: 9789004153516
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.7"