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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet

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A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.

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    • Title: Forging the Golden Urn by Max Oidtmann
    • Publisher: Columbia University Press
    • Print ISBN: 9780231184076, 0231184077
    • eText ISBN: 9780231545303
    • Edition: 2023
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