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Her work reveals modern Tibetan history like never before-not by tracking political or institutional history, but through attention to the life of a runaway girl who transforms herself from lowly servant to famous teacher through her extraordinary vision of her life. -- Gray Tuttle, Columbia University A detailed picture of the world of Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the tantric variety, in the early twentieth century. It explores questions long in the mind of students of Tibetan Buddhism about how the arcane practices of tantric Buddhism actually figure in the lives-and loves-of real historical people, particularly women. A great contribution worthy of close attention. -- Janet Gyatso, Harvard Divinity School A complex work, rewarding in many ways... this is a rare window into a world so different, and yet so historically recent... Jacoby brings lots of food for thought and fresh new ways of seeing the familiar. 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The two principals were hardly equals, and Lan Wu deftly analyses the mise en scène of this \"common ground\" in which there was an obvious give and take by both parties, even if this was not always readily acknowledged by either one. This is a riveting book and a welcome addition to the growing number of studies\u003cbr\u003ethat deal with the relationships that were forged between different Tibetan Buddhist and Manchu actors during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in which of necessity the Mongols played an important if not a central role. -- Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eProvides a unique perspective for understanding the flexible geopolitics strategy of the Qing dynasty. * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNote on Transliteration and Translation\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Buddhist Inner Asia\u003cbr\u003e1. Campaigns\u003cbr\u003e2. 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