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The Buddha party : how the people's Republic of China works to define and control Tibetan Buddhism / John Powers.

Title
  1. The Buddha party : how the people's Republic of China works to define and control Tibetan Buddhism / John Powers.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Author
  1. Powers, John, 1957-

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Description
  1. xiv, 370 pages : maps; 25 cm
Summary
  1. The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed by Han Chinese. Most of China's leaders appear to deeply believe the official line regarding Tibet, which resonates with Han notions of themselves as China's most advanced nationality and as a benevolent race that liberates and culturally uplifts minority peoples. This in turn profoundly affects how the leadership interacts with their counterparts in other countries. Powers's study focuses in particular on the government's "patriotic education" campaign-an initiative that forces monks and nuns to participate in propaganda sessions and repeat official dogma. Powers contextualizes this within a larger campaign to transform China's religions into "patriotic" systems that endorse Communist Party policies. This book offers a powerful, comprehensive examination of this ongoing phenomenon, how it works and how Tibetans resist it.
Uniform title
  1. University press scholarship online.
Subject
  1. Zhong guo gong chan dang
  2. 2000-2099
  3. Geschichtsfälschung
  4. Propaganda
  5. Einflussnahme
  6. Religionspolitik
  7. Tibetischer Buddhismus
  8. Buddhism > Tibet Autonomous Region > History > 21st century
  9. Buddhists > History > Tibet Autonomous Region > 21st century
  10. Buddhism and state > Tibet Autonomous Region
  11. Buddhism and politics > Tibet Autonomous Region
  12. Buddhism
  13. Buddhism and politics
  14. Buddhism and state
  15. Buddhists > Persecutions
  16. International relations
  17. Tibet
  18. China
  19. Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Relations > China
  20. China > Relations > Tibet Autonomous Region
  21. China > Tibet Autonomous Region
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. History.
Contents
  1. Acts of ingratitude -- The limitations of propaganda -- Patriotic soul boys and other Chinese myths -- Tibetology with Chinese characteristics -- Chinese and Tibetan perspectives on history -- Tibetan spellings -- Chinese terms -- Buddhist terms.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-360) and index.