Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Impact of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama’s Sojourn in Mongolia Arousing the National Consciousness of Tibetan Buddhists from 1904 to 1908
- 2 The Modern and Traditional Diplomacy of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama During His Sojourn in Khalkha and Qinghai (1904–1907)
- 3 Friendship and Antagonism: Tibetans and Money in Early Twentieth-Century Mongolia
- 4 The Tibet-Mongolia Political Interface in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Data from Russian Archives
- 5 A Study of three Tibetan letters attributed to Dorzhiev held by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian: Academy of Sciences
- 6 Russian Archival Documents on the Revitalization of Buddhism Among the Kalmyks in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 7 Buddhist Devotion to the Russian Tsar: The Bicultural Environment of the Don Kalmyk Sangha and Russian Orthodox Church in the 1830s
- 8 Russian Tsar as Cakravartin: A Buryat Lama’s View of the Coronation of Nicholas II
- 9 The Struggle between Tradition and Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century of the Tibetan Buddhist World: A case study of the Seventh lCang-skya’s activities from 1912–1957
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
9 - The Struggle between Tradition and Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century of the Tibetan Buddhist World: A case study of the Seventh lCang-skya’s activities from 1912–1957
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Impact of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama’s Sojourn in Mongolia Arousing the National Consciousness of Tibetan Buddhists from 1904 to 1908
- 2 The Modern and Traditional Diplomacy of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama During His Sojourn in Khalkha and Qinghai (1904–1907)
- 3 Friendship and Antagonism: Tibetans and Money in Early Twentieth-Century Mongolia
- 4 The Tibet-Mongolia Political Interface in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Data from Russian Archives
- 5 A Study of three Tibetan letters attributed to Dorzhiev held by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian: Academy of Sciences
- 6 Russian Archival Documents on the Revitalization of Buddhism Among the Kalmyks in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 7 Buddhist Devotion to the Russian Tsar: The Bicultural Environment of the Don Kalmyk Sangha and Russian Orthodox Church in the 1830s
- 8 Russian Tsar as Cakravartin: A Buryat Lama’s View of the Coronation of Nicholas II
- 9 The Struggle between Tradition and Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century of the Tibetan Buddhist World: A case study of the Seventh lCang-skya’s activities from 1912–1957
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
Abstract
Hamugetu's paper discusses the relationships between tradition and modernity through an examination of the Seventh lCang-skya's activities in China and Inner Mongolia in the late Qing period. Articulating a modern ideology of the separation of church and state, he sought to protect the interests of Tibetan Buddhist society from both the Chinese government and Inner Mongolian nationalists through accommodating both forces, while simultaneously seeking to reform Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia along modernist lines. Striving to protect the interests of the Buddhist community, the struggle of the Seventh lCang-skya between the system of jasak lamas and the separation of religion and state is typical of the issues facing the Tibetan Buddhist world in the early 20th century.
Keywords: The Seventh lCang-skya, Qing, Tibetan Buddhism, Inner Mongolia, modernism
Introduction
During the modern period of national or regional state formation in Asia, the relationship between religion and politics was thoroughly reconstructed. To understand the transformation of this relationship it is necessary to consider region-specific factors, such as the impact of nationalist forces, various models of government, and individual activities. For example, it is well known that the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the Eighth Jebtsundamba's activities were vital to the movements for the independence of Tibet and Mongolia.
The situation of Inner Mongolia was very complicated. By the end of World War II, the Communist Party of China had gained control over Manchukuo and the Mongol United Autonomous Government after the collapse of Japanese rule in Inner Mongolia. In 1947, China established the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with decisive diplomatic and military support from the Soviet Union. For these reasons, the modern history of Inner Mongolia is generally understood in terms of the wider context of the history of the liberation of China. Recently the history of this period has also been reviewed from the perspective of the Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, a political party in Inner Mongolia active in the 1920s and resurrected after the surrender of Japan. But it is difficult to agree with their conclusion that the emergence of the current Inner Mongolia region was the result of the late 1940s autonomy movements led by the Communist Party of China or the Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.
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- The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist WorldStudies in Central Asian Buddhism, pp. 229 - 248Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022