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The Jebumgang Temple : Ritual Architecture and the Defence of the Modern Tibetan State

Author :  Matthew Akester

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Country
Switzerland
Publisher
Garuda (Book) Verlag, Switzerland
ISBN 9783906139357
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info 92p. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Product Weight 400 gms.
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The Jebumgang temple, with its ornamental gilt roof, was a highly visible landmark on the northern skyline of the old city of Lhasa, yet it a attracted little attention, and its story seems to have been largely unknown. This study locates its origins in an intriguing period of the city’s modern history – the reassertion of Tibetan political authority during the last decades of the Manchu empire, and the accession to power of the 13thDalai Lama – and considers the questions that this raises, about the role of Nyingmapa ritual and prophecy in the resurgence of the Ganden Potrang state, and the emergence of a sectarian controversy that has haunted it ever since.

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