Labrang: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery At The Crossroads Of Four Civilizations

Book Summary


Labrang Monastery, located in northeast 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.

Book Details


Book Name Labrang: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery At The Crossroads Of Four Civilizations
Author Paul Kocot Nietupski, Griebenow Archives
Publisher Snow Lion Publications (Jan 1999)
ISBN 9781559390903
Pages 160
Language English
Price 675
 
 

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