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Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa - Encounters with Asia Brenton Sullivan
Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa - Encounters with Asia
Brenton Sullivan
Building a Religious Empire presents an account of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism during its expansion and consolidation of power from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, examining the extraordinary effort Geluk lamas put into establishing institutional frameworks to standardize monastic life.
304 pages, 11 halftones, 3 charts, 2 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 11, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812252675 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 159 × 26 mm · 566 g |