Vol. 35, Special issue: Festschrift for Wayne Richter.
摘要
The article discusses a thangka painting of a Tibetan reformer and teacher Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) in the Asian Reading Room, Library of Congress. The painting was given by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876-1933) to an American statesman and diplomat William Woodville Rockhill (1854-1914) in 1908 at Wutaishan, China. As the first lengthy article focused on this thangka, it discusses its visual properties in relation to the events during which this gift exchange happened. The article suggests that the painting is the work by an Amdo artist, and discusses an important Amdo teacher Fourth Tarshul Gendün Chokyong Gyatso (1810-1884), who is depicted in the painting, and his disciple the Seventh Zhabdrung Karpo Gendün Tenzin Norbu (1873-1927) from Lamo Dechen Monastery. The article argues that the thangka acquired new meanings in the course of its politically-intended circulation of an international outreach as an agent in Inner Asian politics in the early 20th century. Special attention is given to Ikh Khüree, Outer Mongolia’s preeminent monastery, with which both the Dalai Lama and Rockhill were connected for many years and for different purposes. The thangka and the Tibetan and Mongolian books that accompanied it in the gift exchange, as well as Rockhill’s other books he acquired in Outer Mongolia, laid the foundation for the Tibetan and Mongolian collection at the Library of Congress.
目次
Abstract 63 The Reformers, Scholars, and Diplomats 65 Mongol Connections 71 Buddhist gift-making, International Alliances and Border Politics after 1908 75 Conclusion 80 Notes 81 References 89 List of illustration 94
