Our Great Qing: the Mongols, Buddhism and the State in Late Imperial China

Elverskog, Johan (著)

著者

Elverskog, Johan (著)

出版年月日

2006

ページ

242

出版者

University of Hawaii Press

出版サイト

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/

出版地

Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Johan Elverskog received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. His research focuses on the history of Buddhism in Inner Asia, Mongol intellectual history and the cultural history of the Qing dynasty. Among his publications are Uygur Buddhist Literature (1997), The Jewel Translucent Sutra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century (2003), The Pearl Rosary (2006) and numerous journal articles and essays in edited volumes. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University.

キーワード

尸羅=戒=command=Precept=sila=morality=rule=discipline=prohibition; 西藏佛教=藏傳佛教=Tibetan Buddhism

抄録

Although it is generally believed that the Manchus controlled the Mongols through their patronage of Tibetan Buddhism, scant attention has been paid to the Mongol view of the Qing imperial project. In contrast to other accounts of Manchu rule, Our Great Qing focuses not only on what images the metropole wished to project into Mongolia, but also on what images the Mongols acknowledged themselves. Rather than accepting the Manchu’s use of Buddhism, Johan Elverskog begins by questioning the static, unhistorical, and hegemonic view of political life implicit in the Buddhist explanation. By stressing instead the fluidity of identity and Buddhist practice as processes continually developing in relation to state formations, this work explores how Qing policies were understood by Mongols and how they came to see themselves as Qing subjects. In his investigation of Mongol society on the eve of the Manchu conquest, Elverskog reveals the distinctive political theory of decentralization that fostered the civil war among the Mongols. He explains how it was that the Manchu Great Enterprise was not to win over "Mongolia" but was instead to create a unified Mongol community of which the disparate preexisting communities would merely be component parts. A key element fostering this change was the Qing court’s promotion of Gelukpa orthodoxy, which not only transformed Mongol historical narratives and rituals but also displaced the earlier vernacular Mongolian Buddhism. Finally, Elverskog demonstrates how this eighteenth-century conception of a Mongol community, ruled by an aristocracy and nourished by a Buddhist emperor, gave way to a pan-Qing solidarity of all Buddhist peoples against Muslims and Christians and to local identities that united for the first time aristocrats with commoners in a new Mongol Buddhist identity on the eve of the twentieth century.

Acknowledgments xi
Note on Transcription xiii
Mongol Reign Periods xv
Qing Reign Periods xvii
Introduction 1
1. The Mongols on the Eve of Conquest 14
2. The Mongols and Political Authority 40
3. Qing Ornamentalism and the Cult of Chinggis Khan 63
4. The Poetics, Rituals and Language of Being Mongol,
Buddhist and Qing 90
5. The Buddhist Qing and Mongol Localization in
the Nineteenth Century 127
Epilogue 166
Notes 171
List of Tibetan Spellings 207
Chinese Character Glossary 209
References 211
Index 235

ISBN

9780824830212 (hc); 9780824833305 (pbk); 9780824863814 (eb); 0824833309 (pbk); 0824830210 (hc)

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