Common Ground: Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia

by Lan Wu

Book Overview

The Qing empire and the Dalai Lama-led Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism came into contact in the eighteenth century. Their interconnections would shape regional politics and the geopolitical history of Inner Asia for centuries to come. In Common Ground, Lan Wu analyzes how Tibetan Buddhists and the Qing imperial rulers interacted and negotiated as both sought strategies to expand their influence in eighteenth-century Inner Asia. In so doing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231206178
• ISBN13: 9780231206174
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"