Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa

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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Building a Religious Empire presents an account of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism during its expansion and consolidation of power from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, examining the extraordinary effort Geluk lamas put into establishing institutional frameworks to standardize monastic life.

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