A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism - Caroline Humphrey - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226031903 - July 15, 2013
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A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism

Caroline Humphrey

A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism

Describes the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery - the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia - from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, the authors tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries.


424 pages, 6 halftones, 2 maps

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 15, 2013
ISBN13 9780226031903
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 440
Dimensions 157 × 229 × 24 mm   ·   600 g
Language English  

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