Governing beyond Death

Governing beyond Death: The Dalai Lama, Reincarnation, and the Making of Late Imperial China turns to a phenomenon usually understood as a matter of religious doctrine, showing that Tibetan Buddhist reincarnation was also deeply entangled with statecraft and asking how sacred authority is transmitted amid rupture.

藏傳佛教的轉世通常被視為宗教教義的問題。本書則指出，轉世同時與治國之術深刻交織，並追問神聖權威如何在斷裂之中得以傳承。