Nomads on Pilgrimage

Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940

Bibliographic Data

ID9376239
AuthorsIsabelle Charleux (0000-0002-4320-5618, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages471
Publication date2015-06-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNomads on pilgrimage (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004297784
OpenAlexW4239843318
Open LibraryOL30393982M
ISBN9789004297784
LanguageEN
Citations received18

Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols' pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of China became a unique place of intercultural exchanges, mutual borrowings, and competition between different ethnic groups. Based on a variety of written and visual sources, including a rich corpus of more than 340 Mongolian stone inscriptions, it documents why and how Wutaishan became one of the holiest sites for Mongols, who eventually reshaped its physical and spiritual landscape by their rites and strategies of appropriation

Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Geography · Pilgrimage · African history and culture analysis · African Studies and Geopolitics · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Philippine History and Culture · Religion, Society, and Development · Anti-clericalism · Antiquities · Ethnic relations · Inscriptions, mongolian · Mongolian Inscriptions · Mongols · Mountains · Nationalism · Pilgrims and pilgrimages · Religious life and customs · Social life and customs · Wutai Mountains

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