A01=Franz Michael
Author_Franz Michael
Buddhist political systems analysis
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Chinese military
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama's Government
Dalai Lama's Rule
Dalai Lamas
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exile oral histories
Explosive Pressures
Fourth Dalai Lama
Grand Secretaries
Gyalwa Karmapa
Holy Mountains
human heritage
Iron Hill
King Songtsen Gampo
Kuen Lun
Lhasa Government
Lord Chamberlain
Max Weber sociology
Mi Ser
Military Headquarters
monastic governance
Monk Official
non-Western traditional societies
Panchen Lama
Reception Corridor
religious legitimacy
Sakya Pandita
social stratification Tibet
Songtsen Gampo
theocracy studies
Thirteenth Dalai Lama
Tibet's singular society
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Polity
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367286231
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The 1959 Chinese military takeover of Tibet brought an end to a unique way of life in which Buddhism provided legitimacy to political and social authority in Tibet and served as value system, cultural bond, philosophy of life, and framework for a complex political and social order. The religious-political system of Tibet now exists only in the memories of those who experienced it. This book documents the human heritage and cultural traditions of Tibet's singular society as they developed and existed during a period of several hundred years. Using Max Weber's framework of the interrelationship between religious ideologies and the emergence of social, economic, and political systems, Franz Michael and his colleagues analyze the concepts that are central to Tibetan Buddhism and apply them to the Tibetan people, their social and political order, and their way of life. Much of the study is based on interviews with Tibetans in exile-from incarnations and highly placed ecclesiastical and secular government leaders to farmers, herdsmen, and housewives. The result is important not only as the record of a culture, but also as it is related by the authors to the broader issue of the modernization of non-Western traditional societies.
Franz Michael
