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Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism: Mongolian Buddhist Texts and Rituals

Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism: Mongolian Buddhist Texts and Rituals

Wallace, Vesna
Tsultemin, Uranchimeg

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Asian ArtBuddhismCentral Asian History

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ISBN10: 0231194781
ISBN13: 9780231194785
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Feb 17 2026
Pages: 328
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

In Mongolian Buddhism, texts, rituals, and images are deeply interwoven, yet they are typically studied separately. This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on previously unexamined writings and artworks to shed new light on the intricate interrelationships that define this tradition.

Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg Tsultemin--a religious studies scholar and an art historian--combine their expertise to demonstrate how textual and visual imagery have built and maintained Mongolian Buddhist community and identity over time. They show that individual and collective acts of imagination are central to a vast range of contemplative, ritual, liturgical, and artistic practices, shaping religious and cultural experience and tradition. Wallace and Tsultemin track the transmission and development of Buddhist belief and practice through a vast range of textual and visual sources. This book also considers how Mongolian Buddhist scholars, contemplatives, and artists expressed their religious views and social concerns in response to the political events of their times. Highlighting little-known treasures of Mongolian culture and featuring extensive illustrations, Art and Imagination develops pioneering insights into Mongolian Buddhist texts, objects, and practices.

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