Buddhism between Tibet and China
By: edited by Matthew T. Kapstein.
Contributors: Kapstein, Matthew.
Series: Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Buddhism -- China; Buddhism -- China -- Tibet; Tibet (China) -- Relations -- China; China -- Relations -- Tibet (China)
Description: The historical accounts that comprise this volume display the dialogue between Tibet and China surrounding scholarship, the fine arts, politics, philosophy, and religion, providing an insight into the history behind the relationship from a variety of geographical regions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mediations and margins / Matthew T. Kapstein; title: Sites of encounter; title: The treaty Temple of the Turquoise Grove / Matthew T. Kapstein; title: The commissioner's commissions : late-thirteenth-century Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist art in Hangzhou under the Mongols / Rob Linrothe; title: Dabaojigong and the regional tradition of ming sino-Tibetan painting in the kingdom of Lijiang / Karl Debreczeny; title: Missions from the frontiers; title: Tibetan Buddhism, perceived and imagined, along the ming-era sino-Tibetan frontier / Elliot Sperling; title: The reverend Chinese (Gyanakpa Tsang) at Labrang Monastery / Paul Nietupski; title: Gangkar Rinpoch between Tibet and China : a Tibetan lama among ethnic Chinese in the 1930s to 1950s / Carmen Meinert; title: The modern Chinese discovery of Tibetan Buddhism; title: Translating Buddhism from Tibetan to Chinese in early-twentieth-century China (1931-1951) / Gray Tuttle; title: Tibetan learning in the contemporary Chinese Yoga School / Zhihua Yao; title: The Chinese lama Nenghai (1886-1967) : doctrinal tradition and teaching strategies of a Gelukpa master in republican China / Ester Bianchi; title: China and the Dalai Lama in the twentieth century; title: The thirteenth Dalai Lama's visit to Beijing in 1908 : in search of a new kind of chaplain-donor relationship / Fabienne Jagou; title: The Taiwanese connection : politics, piety, and patronage in transnational Tibetan Buddhism / Abraham Zablocki.