Nomads on pilgrimage
Subtitle: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940
By: by Isabelle Charleux
Series: Brill's Inner Asian library, 1566-7162 -- volume 33
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden, the Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9789004296015; 9789004297784
Subjects: Social life and customs; Anti-clericalism; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Antiquities; Ethnic relations; Mongols; Mongolian Inscriptions; Nationalism; Religious life and customs; History
Description: "Nomads on Pilgrimage : Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols' pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of China became a unique place of intercultural exchanges, mutual borrowings, and competition between different ethnic groups. Based on a variety of written and visual sources, including a rich corpus of more than 340 Mongolian stone inscriptions, it documents why and how Wutaishan became one of the holiest sites for Mongols, who eventually reshaped its physical and spiritual landscape by their rites and strategies of appropriation"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-461) and index.
Table of contents: title: The pilgrimage sites of the Mongols : an overview; title: The invention of Wutaishan; title: Political and clerical promotion of Wutaishan in the Qing and Republican periods; title: The Mongol imaginaire of Wutaishan; title: The Mongol pilgrims : sociological and economic aspects; title: The Mongols on Wutaishan : interactions and encounters; title: Mongolized Wutaishan and Mongol Wutaishans : appropriation and substitution; title: Conclusion: Wutaishan's legacy in Mongolia; title: Appendix 1: Main monasteries of Wutaishan, early twentieth century; title: A