Tibetan Buddhists in the making of modern China

Map: Tibet and Tibetan Buddhist Activity in ChinaIntroductionCountering Nationalist HistoriographyTransitions: Making National, Going Global1. Imperial TraditionsTraditions Linking Tibetan Buddhists and Dynastic RulersTibetan Buddhist Intermediaries at the Qing CourtTraditions That Divided Tibet from China Proper2. Global Forces in Asia (1870s-1910s)Western Imperialist Commercial Interests in TibetChinese Nationalist Strategies: Designs on Tibet and the Tibetan ResponseRacial Ideology in China3. Buddhism as a Pan-Asian Religion (1890s-1928)The Shared Interests of Chinese and Tibetan BuddhistsThe Origins of Chinese Interest in Tibetan Buddhist Teachers and PracticesTibetan Lamas Teach in ChinaChinese Monks Study in Tibet4. Overcoming Barriers Between China and Tibet (1929-1931)Barriers to Chinese Studying Tibetan BuddhismForging New Links: Lamas Assist Chinese MonksSichuan Laity Elicits Government InvolvementThe Political Monk: Taixu5. The Failure of Racial and Nationalist Ideologies (1928-1932)The Politicization of Lamas Roles in ChinaSecular Educational InstitutionsSino-Tibetan Secular Dialogue on Chinese TermsFailed Rhetoric: Tibetan Autonomy Denied6. The Merging of Secular and Religious Systems (1931-1935)Renewed Sino-Tibetan Dialogue on Tibetan TermsThe Zenith of Tibetan Buddhist Activity in ChinaPolitical Propaganda Missions by Lamas7. Linking Chinese and Tibetan Cultures (1934-1950s)