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Labrang - Softcover

Nietupski, Paul Kocot

 
9781559390903: Labrang
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1559390905 ISBN 13: 9781559390903
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications, 1999

Synopsis

Labrang Monastery, located in northeastern Tibet at the strategic intersection of four major Asian civilizations—Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese, and Muslim—was one of the largest Buddhist monastic universities. In the early twentieth century, it housed several thousand monks. Labrang was also a gathering point for numerous annual religious festivals, supported an active regional marketplace where Chinese artisans rubbed shoulders with Hui merchants and nomadic Tibetan highlanders, and was the seat of a Tibetan power base that strove to maintain regional autonomy through the shifting alliances and bloody conflicts that took place between 1700 and 1950.

Paul Nietupski draws on the photographs and memoirs of Marion and Blance Griebenow, Christian missionaries resident for nearly twenty-seven years, as well as the memoirs of Apa Alo, a prominent leader, to detail Labrang's unique and colorful border culture.

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About the Author

Paul Nietupski, Ph.D. is currently teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Publisher
Snow Lion Publications
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1559390905
ISBN 13 
9781559390903
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128