{"product_id":"lineages-of-the-literary-9780231197076","title":"Lineages of the Literary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Nicole Willock reveals how they negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn illuminating study of the lives and writings of three highly influential Buddhist figures in modern Tibet: Tseten Zhabdrung, Muge Samten, and Dungkar Lozang Trinle. In \u003ci\u003eLineages of the Literary\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicole Willock masterfully demonstrates how their embodiment of the Geluk scholarly ideal allowed these polymaths to play a prominent role in Sino-Tibetan relations and create a pivotal generational transmission of Tibetan history, language, and culture in secular terms within China’s \u003ci\u003eminzu\u003c\/i\u003e (ethnic minority) universities. -- Holly Gayley, author of \u003ci\u003eLove Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book details the careers of three outstanding Tibetan figures during the Cultural Revolution who creatively drew on Buddhist and other traditional resources as forces for good in a troubled society.  It also aims to illustrate how such appropriation can be effective in the modern context more generally. Insightful and capacious, the book studies how friendship in particular can serve the negotiation of conflicting pressures.  An excellent analysis of Tibetan culture and religion during most challenging times. -- Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School\u003cbr\u003eIt is often assumed that when the Dalai Lama fled from Tibet to India in 1959, Tibetan Buddhism followed him into exile.  In \u003ci\u003eLineages of the Literary\u003c\/i\u003e, a work that is at once highly original and deeply inspiring, Nicole Willock demonstrates that this was emphatically not the case. -- Donald Lopez, Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLineages of the Literary \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most important contributions to the history of Sino-Tibetan relations in the second half of the twentieth century to date. Nicole Willock’s exploration of the lives and writings of Tséten Zhabdrung, Mugé Samten, and Dungkar Rinpoché provides a missing link in our understanding of a contested and polarized era of modern Sino-Tibetan history. -- Gray Tuttle, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Tibetan History Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Transcription, Transliteration, and Naming Practices\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Three Polymaths: Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e2. “Telling What Happened”: Buddhist Recollections of the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e3. Mellifluous Words on the Human Condition: The Maoist Years\u003cbr\u003e4. Dungkar Rinpoché on the Contested Ground of Tibetan History\u003cbr\u003e5. Diverging Lineages\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400350802263,"sku":"9780231197076","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231197076.jpg?v=1730470464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lineages-of-the-literary-9780231197076","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}