Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China
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ISBN: 0824825632 / Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 2003
Berger (history of art, U. of California-Berkeley) challenges the conventional dismissal of imperial...
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Berger (history of art, U. of California-Berkeley) challenges the conventional dismissal of imperial Manchu support for Buddhism as cynical political manipulation by examining the Buddhist underpinnings of the Qing view of rulership, and how central images were in the court's rhetoric toward its Buddhist allies in Mongolia and Tibet. She finds the Qing Qianlong emperor (ruled 1763-95) to be the greatest Buddhist patron of his lineage. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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