Labrang: A Tibetan Monastery at the Crossroads of Four Civilizations

Nietupski, Paul Kocot

ISBN 10: 1559390905 / ISBN 13: 9781559390903

Published by Snow Lion, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Labrang: A Tibetan Monastery at the Crossroads of Four Civilizations
• Publisher: Snow Lion
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559390905
• ISBN 13: 9781559390903
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Labrang Monastery, located in northeastern Tibet at the strategic intersection of four major Asian civilizations—Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese, and Muslim—was one of the largest Buddhist monastic universities. In the early twentieth century, it housed several thousand monks. Labrang was also a gathering point for numerous annual religious festivals, supported an active regional marketplace where Chinese artisans rubbed shoulders with Hui merchants and nomadic Tibetan highlanders, and was the seat of a Tibetan power base that strove to maintain regional autonomy through the shifting alliances and bloody conflicts that took place between 1700 and 1950.

Paul Nietupski draws on the photographs and memoirs of Marion and Blance Griebenow, Christian missionaries resident for nearly twenty-seven years, as well as the memoirs of Apa Alo, a prominent leader, to detail Labrang's unique and colorful border culture.

About the Author

Paul Nietupski, Ph.D. is currently teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.