: Max Oidtmann
: Forging the Golden Urn The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
: Columbia University Press
: 9780231545303
: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions of the Qing empire and transformed into a ritual for authenticating reincarnations.

Max Oidtmann is assistant professor of Asian history at Georgetown University Qatar.