Under the shadow of White Tara : Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia /
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| Author / Creator: | T︠S︡yrempilov, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1975- author. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, MA : Brill/Ferdinance Schöningh, [2021] ©2021 |
| Description: | xvii, 240 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eurasian studies library : history, societies & cultures in Eurasia ; volume 16 Eurasian studies library ; v. 16. |
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| Format: | Map Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12595882 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
- Maps
- Notes on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Special Terms
- 1. Introduction
- From the Qing to Romanovs
- Russia's Many Faiths
- 2. Building the Church of the Lamas
- Early Encounters
- Negotiating Loyalty
- Attempts to Isolate
- Counting the Lamas
- A "Tolerated" Religion
- Determining the Limits
- Winning Catherine's Favor
- The Birth of the Sangha
- 3. Dealing with the 'Lama Issue'
- Speranskii's Enlightened Liberalism
- Schilling von Cannstatt's Charter
- Lavinskii's Draft Statute
- The 1841 Selenga-Khori Charter
- Levashev's Revision
- 4. Learning to Live Together
- The Need for Rules
- Murav'ev's Provision
- Conflicts and Compromises
- Foreign Lamas
- Books of the Lamas
- Divide and Rule
- 5. From Lamaism to Buddhism
- The Tsar as Cakravartin
- Paganism or Noble Religion?
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
