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Author:   Vesna Wallace ,  Uranchimeg Tsultemin
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231194792

ISBN 10:   023119479
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   14 April 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Conventions Introduction, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg Tsultemin Part I: Memory, Imagination, and Imagery Introduction to Part I, by Vesna A. Wallace 1. Aspiring for Śambhala: Desire, Imagination, and Linguistic Imagery, by Vesna A. Wallace 2. Imagination in the Ritual of the Transference of Consciousness to Śambhala and Other Related Practices, by Vesna A. Wallace 3. Imagination in Repelling the Barbarian Troops Through Ritual, by Vesna A. Wallace Part II: The Jebtsundampa’s Guru Yoga: Building Imagined Community in the Present, Past, and Future Introduction to Part II, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin 4. The Supreme Teacher, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin 5. The Historical Consciousness of the Community, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin 6. Projection Into the Future: Visual Supplication for the Arrival of the Next Teacher, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin Conclusion, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg Tsultemin Appendix A: Translations and Transliterations of Mongolian Inscriptions on the Two Paintings Appendix B: Consecration Inscription Notes Bibliography Index

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Significantly expands our understanding of how Buddhist texts and objects are produced, circulated, received, and deployed within the wider Tibetan Buddhist world. -- Andrew H. Quintman, Wesleyan University

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Vesna A. Wallace is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society (2015), among other books. Uranchimeg Tsultemin is the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies and an associate professor of art history at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. She is the author of A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia (2021), among other books.

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