The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment

Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals.

Based on detailed cross-regional ethnographic work, the book demonstrates that the revival of T...