Gray Tuttle

Columbia University, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Faculty Member

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Pattern Recognition: Tracking the Spread of the Incarnation Institution through Time and across Tibetan Territory

$Fig. 3. The Fifth Dalai Lama meets the Shunzhi emperor. Detail of wall paintings. “Existence and Peace Replete” grand hall, Red Palace, Potala, Lhasa, 1690-1694. \fter Phuntsok Namgyal 2002, 125. By permission of Homa & Sekey Books, www.homabooks.com, standing Chenrezik at a height of two meters.'’ The Desi’s catalog continues by listing fifty-seven members of the Dalai Lama’s rebirth lineage painted on the walls above the balustrade (seng g.yab), beginning with the Fifth Dalai Lama (Fig. 1).'' Except for Chenrezik, all of the Dalai Lama rebirth lineage members portrayed on the main walls reappear as portrait subjects on the walls above the balustrade, as documented in the left column of Appendix A. This brings the total number of Dalai Lama rebirth lineage members portrayed in the grand hall to fifty-eight.$

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9. Uniting Religion and Politics in a Bid for Autonomy: Lamas in Exile in China and America

The Tibetan history reader

The Failure of Ideologies in China's Relations with Tibetans

Accommodation or Resistance, 2010

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An Unknown Tradition of Han Chinese Conversions to Tibetan Buddhism:Han Chinese Incarnate Lamas and Parishioners of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Amdo*

AbstrActThis article examines Han Chinese who has historically practiced Tibetan Buddhism in the ... more AbstrActThis article examines Han Chinese who has historically practiced Tibetan Buddhism in the Qinghai-Gansu border region. The main primary sources were published in the 1990s, based on surveys by Chinese social scientists who were sent around in the 1950s to collect data on Tibetan Buddhist institutions as well as additional independent surveys from the 1980s and my own site visits in 2006. On the basis of these sources, I argue that there are at least 100,000 and probably as many as 200,000 Han Chinese on the borders of Qinghai and Gansu (part of the Amdo cultural region for Tibetans) practicing Tibetan Buddhism, following traditions that seem to have been in place for centuries. I also discuss the sixteen historic cases of Han Chinese reincarnate lamas and the over one hundred monasteries in this region affiliated with Han Chinese. Finally, I note the sectarian affiliations (jiaopai: Nyingma, Geluk, etc.) and religious practices of these Chinese communities practicing Tibetan ...

Tibetan Buddhism at Ri bo rtse lnga/Wutai shan in Modern Times

This article examines the prominent role of Tibetan Buddhism at the major cult center of Manjuśrī... more This article examines the prominent role of Tibetan Buddhism at the major cult center of Manjuśrī known as Ri bo rtse lnga or Wutai shan (sometimes spelled "Wutaishan") in Shanxi Province, China. The late imperial presence of Tibetan Buddhism at Ri bo rtse lnga (fourteenth-twentieth centuries) has been studied,buttheplaceofTibetanBuddhismatRibortselngaundertheRepublican government and the Communist regime has not previously been explored in detail. An examination of written sources and on-site investigations reveal that the twentieth century saw a major renewal of Tibetan Buddhist practice at Ri bo rtse lnga with a significant multi-ethnic following. The presence of ethnic Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese Tibetan Buddhists at this important Buddhist pilgrimage placehasmadeRibortselngaoneofthepre-eminentsitesofreligiousandcultural exchange in China. Many monasteries on the mountain now practice the Dge lugs pa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Two ethnic Chinese who were most i...

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Sources of Tibetan tradition

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranscription and Transliteration ConventionsList of ContributorsDates in T...