...Barry Sautman In May 2008 Time magazine's annual “ Time 100” list of influential people in the world put the Dalai Lama at the top. This outcome was related to the preceding six weeks of protests in Tibet and attendant Western criticisms of China's Tibet policies, but it also reflected the two...

... Internet, would come to include Tibetan incarnate lamas, the State Council of the PRC, the U.S. Senate, the European Parliament,4 Hollywood celebrities,5 and the Splendid China theme park in Orlando, Florida.6 Less than two months before the China...

... Lama, War, and Violence,” is a wry, research-driven effort to write a factual history of how the Dalai Lama took on the identity of “man of Barlow ❘❘ Editor’s Introduction 15 peace,” alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Martin...

... selected by Ong and invited to par- ticipate in the FCP. There were also twenty Lamas and a living Buddha from Tibetan Buddhism, and ritualists (Dongba shamans) from Yunnan in China, who practiced Naxi exorcism ceremonies. Ong selected this diverse...

... stakes of legislating reincarnation became clear when, in the ongo- ing struggle between Chinese authorities and the Dalai Lama, the Chinese acted as protectors of ancient Tibetan traditions. In November in reac- tion to Order Number Five, the...

..., stretches below. The ruling lamas and lama-aspirants are all originally foreigners who either wandered in-usually on the brink of death, like so many real-life colonial adventurers-or were abducted, as in the case of Conway and his...

... celibate monastic hierarchs. During its heyday in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Labrang monastery housed up to four thousand monks and some sixty-eight resident incarnate lamas and administered thousands of lay households in the...

... bodies full length before images of the Buddha and the Dalai Lama. And, according to some sources, while being initiated into the Kalacakra tantra by the Zhangjia Hutuketu, the Qianlong emperor knelt and touched the top of his head to...

... instigator of the project, created an aesthetic politics not wholly different from the invention of Manchukuo. It placed into face-to-face relation Tibetan Lamas, Yuan Naxi ritualists, Thai dancers, Chinese opera performers, video artists, Indonesian...

... political his- tory.4 The Dalai Lama had already been awarded a Peace Prize in 1989,5 so, as the British weekly The Economist put it, “Mr. Liu stands apart as an ethnic Han Chinese who has devoted himself to addressing the politics of...

... from the county People’s Consultative Conference, and then we walked across the courtyard to visit an incarnate lama who lives in an ornate apartment in the Conference building. He had been one of the hosts asked to sing a...

... name of “Racial Harmony” (minzuxuehe or minjokukyowa), the Manchukuo government tried to preserve ethnic particularity and sent Lama monks to Japan and Taiwan to lecture on Lama Buddhism.30 Mixed marriages were favorably reported.31 Public...

..., to the State Council of the PRC, to Tibetan incarnate lamas, to Hollywood celebrities and the U.S. Senate, have all invested time, energy, and money into preserving something of China’s glorious past. All of these actors work in divergent ways...

...—Catholics, Protestants, Jews, the eastern church, the Grand Lama of Tibet, the Indian Sanskrit code—I have been trying to organize all these people to the under- standing that their welfare and the existence of decency and honor in the...