Reconciliation and legitimization : the fifth karmapa deshin shegpa's trip to ming china

Departing from the vexed debate on the nature of the Sino-Tibetan relationship, this thesis examines the Fifth Karmapa Deshin Shegpa’s historic visit to the Chinese court in the early Ming era. By reading across Chinese and Tibetan language sources, in this thesis I reconstruct the entire trip of th...

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Main Author: Qujie, Suolang
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43170