Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire

Matthew W. King

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood

A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire

Matthew W. King

https://doi.org/10.7312/king19106

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About this book

Matthew King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times. He reveals an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject.

Author / Editor information

King Matthew W. :

Matthew King (PhD, Religious Studies, Toronto) is Assistant Professor of Transnational Buddhism at the University of California at Riverside. He has published articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, History and Anthropology, Mongol Studies, Himalaya, and Mongolian Buddhism Past and Present; he has won SSRC and Mellon Foundation grants. His first book, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire, is forthcoming from Columbia.Matthew W. King is assistant professor in transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews

Vesna A. Wallace, editor of Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society:
King’s brilliant book reshapes our understanding of the countermodern response of postimperial Geluk monasticism in the disenchanted world of the Mongol frontiers of the Qing. This beautifully written and theoretically sophisticated book makes a historiographically significant contribution to scholarship on early twentieth-century Inner Asian Buddhism.

Gray Tuttle, coeditor of Sources of Tibetan Tradition:
King's obviously deep exposure to and grasp of a wide range of theoretical readings has made him alert and attentive to fields beyond his immediate interests in Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhist religion and society. This book combines effective argumentation, solid evidence, and a lyrical quality rare in specialized monographs.

Johan Elverskog, author of Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road:
This is not merely an intellectual history; it is religious studies at its best. Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood establishes a new paradigm in the study of Buddhist Asia, showcasing both how to study countermodern Buddhism and what it reveals.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Enchantment
ONE. Wandering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
TWO. Felt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
THREE. Milk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Part II: Disenchantment
FOUR. Wandering in a Post-Qing World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
FIVE. Vacant Thrones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
SIX. Blood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9780231549226