Labrang Monastery : a Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958.

By:

Nietupski, Paul Kocot, 1950-

Series: Studies in modern Tibetan culturePublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780739164457
0739164457

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Labrang Monastery : A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958.DDC classification:

951.45

LOC classification:

BQ6349.L34 N55 2011eb

Other classification:

11.93
15.75
BE 8154

Online resources:

Contents:

Amdo : an overview -- Tibetan religions in Amdo -- Labrang's society -- Growth and development : the evolution of Labrang Monastery -- Twentieth-century Labrang -- Visions and realities at Labrang.

Summary: This book is a social and political history of Labrang Monastery, located in Tibet's Amdo and China's Gansu Province. It includes a study of the religious heritage of the region and its interactions with surrounding ethnic groups and political powers.

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Amdo : an overview -- Tibetan religions in Amdo -- Labrang's society -- Growth and development : the evolution of Labrang Monastery -- Twentieth-century Labrang -- Visions and realities at Labrang.

This book is a social and political history of Labrang Monastery, located in Tibet's Amdo and China's Gansu Province. It includes a study of the religious heritage of the region and its interactions with surrounding ethnic groups and political powers.