A Monastery in Time: The Making Of Mongolian Buddhism

by Caroline Humphrey (Author), Caroline Humphrey (Author), Hurelbaatar Ujeed (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $33.71

  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.