Columbia University Press eBooks· 2018· Book chapter
Forging the Golden Urn
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Short summary
A Qing law mandating reincarnation identification via a golden urn ritual was adapted and transformed in Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the empire.
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Key points
- Qing law mandated reincarnation identification using a golden urn lottery.
- The golden urn ritual was a Chinese bureaucratic technology.
- This technology was exported to Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire.
- The ritual was transformed into a method for authenticating reincarnations in these regions.
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Abstract
A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.
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Field: Archeology (Social Sciences)
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