King Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood

A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54922-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Matthew King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times. He reveals an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Matthew W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Conventions
Introduction
Part I. Enchantment
1. Wandering
2. Felt
3. Milk
Part II. Disenchantment
4. Wandering in a Post-Qing World
5. Vacant Thrones
6. Blood
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

King Matthew W.:
Matthew King (PhD, Religious Studies, Toronto) is Assistant Professor of Transnational Buddhism at the University of California at Riverside. He has published articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, History and Anthropology, Mongol Studies, Himalaya, and Mongolian Buddhism Past and Present; he has won SSRC and Mellon Foundation grants. His first book, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire, is forthcoming from Columbia.Matthew W. King is assistant professor in transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.