Book Summary
Labrang Monastery, located in northeast Tibet at the strategic intersection of four major Asian civilizations--Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese, and Muslim--was one of the largest Buddhist monastic universities. In the early twentieth century, it housed several thousand monks. Labrang was also a gathering point for numerous annual religious festivals, supported an active regional marketplace where Chinese artisans rubbed shoulders with Hui merchants and nomadic Tibetan highlanders, and was the seat of a Tibetan power base that strove to maintain regional autonomy through the shifting alliances and bloody conflicts that took place between 1700 and 1950.
Book Details
| Book Name | Labrang: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery At The Crossroads Of Four Civilizations |
| Author | Paul Kocot Nietupski, Griebenow Archives |
| Publisher | Snow Lion Publications (Jan 1999) |
| ISBN | 9781559390903 |
| Pages | 160 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 675 |