A Monastery in Time
The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Transliteration
Acknowledgments and a Note on the Writing of this Book
Introduction
1. Buddhist Life at Mergen
2. Mergen Gegen and the Arts of Language
3. Mergen Monastery and Its Landscape
4. Duke Galdan, Perspectives on the Self in the Qing Era
5. Sülde: The “Spirit of Invincibility,” Its Multiplicity and Its Secrets
6. The Afterlife of the 8th Mergen Gegen
7. Sengge: A Lama’s Knowledge and Its Vicissitudes
8. The Chorji Lama: Inheriting from the Past in a New World
9. Regroupings of Laity
10. Tradition and Archivization
Epilogue: Dispersion and Creation
Bibliography
Index
Association for Asian Studies: E. Gene Smith Book Prize
Honorable Mention
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: General Asian Studies
Religion: South and East Asian Religions
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