By Gray Tuttle
ISBN-10: 0231134479
ISBN-13: 9780231134477
Over the last century and with various levels of good fortune, China has attempted to combine Tibet into the trendy chinese language countryside. during this groundbreaking paintings, grey Tuttle unearths the superb function Buddhism and Buddhist leaders performed within the improvement of the fashionable chinese language nation and in fostering kinfolk among Tibet and China from the Republican interval (1912-1949) to the early years of Communist rule. past exploring interactions among Buddhists and politicians in Tibet and China, Tuttle bargains new insights at the impression of contemporary principles of nationalism, race, and faith in East Asia.After the autumn of the Qing dynasty in 1911, the chinese language Nationalists, with out the conventional non secular authority of the Manchu Emperor, promoted nationalism and racial team spirit with a purpose to win help between Tibetans. as soon as this failed, chinese language politicians appealed to a shared Buddhist historical past. This shift in coverage mirrored the late-nineteenth-century educational proposal of Buddhism as a unified international faith, instead of a suite of competing and various Asian non secular practices. whereas chinese language politicians was hoping to achieve Tibetan loyalty via faith, the advertising of a shared Buddhist historical past allowed chinese language Buddhists and Tibetan political and non secular leaders to pursue their targets. in the course of the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, Tibetan Buddhist rules and academics loved great reputation inside a huge spectrum of chinese language society and particularly between marginalized chinese language Buddhists. even if relationships among the elite management among the 2 countries broke down, non secular and cultural connections remained powerful. After the Communists seized keep watch over, they persevered to use this hyperlink while exerting keep an eye on over Tibet by way of strength within the Fifties. And regardless of being an avowedly atheist regime, except for the Cultural Revolution, the chinese language communist govt has persevered to acknowledge and help many components of Tibetan non secular, if no longer political, culture.Tuttle's examine explores the position of Buddhism within the formation of contemporary China and its dating to Tibet throughout the lives of Tibetan and chinese language Buddhists and politicians and via drawing on formerly unexamined archival and governmental fabrics, in addition to own memoirs of chinese language politicians and Buddhist clergymen, and ephemera from spiritual ceremonies. (vol. 33 2005)
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16 Taixu’s collected works are also filled with references to the place of Tibetan Buddhism in China. Other Republican-era Buddhist memorial volumes, dedicated to Tibetan Buddhist teachers or the rituals they performed in China, gave me insight into the social context of the period. The principal archival sources for this work are drawn from the Chongqing city archive, which holds the voluminous records of the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Institute (Han Zang jiaoli yuan) that operated outside the city from to .
I discuss the impact of these global forces in more detail in the next chapter, but first I must describe the imperial traditions that operated in East and Inner Asia in the previous centuries. These traditions, established over centuries of imperial rule, created links between imperial elites and the religious community of Tibetan Buddhists. Of course, the presence of these links did not mean that Tibet somehow became one with the empire. 1 Lateral Axis and Vertical Axis of Communities rial elites functioned so effectively for more than two centuries and then broke down so quickly under the pressures of global modernization.
Against these imperialist forces, the Chinese had neither effective military capabilities nor very persuasive ideologies. Aside from the first and the last few years of the Chinese Republic, the Tibetans had little to be concerned about in the rhetoric of Chinese nationalists. The idea that other races (or nations) would willingly join the new Chinese state was a critical part of Sun Yatsen’s legacy. Without a Chinese military threat, why should the Tibetans have risked the disruptions and transformation that would have been entailed by the militarization of their society?
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