A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism - Caroline Humphrey - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226031873 - July 5, 2013
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A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism


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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     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 5, 2013
ISBN13 9780226031873
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 440
Dimensions 154 × 235 × 29 mm   ·   720 g
Language English  

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