Transliteration ............................................ vii
Acknowledgments and a Note on the Writing of this Book ...... ix
Introduction ................................................. 1
1 Buddhist Life at Mergen ..................................... 26
2 Mergen Gegen and the Arts of Language ....................... 65
3 Mergen Monastery and Its Landscape ......................... 115
4 Duke Galdan, Perspectives on the Self in the QingEra ....... 162
5 Siilde: The "Spirit of Invincibility," Its Multiplicity
and Its Secrets ............................................ 185
6 The Afterlife of the 8th Mergen Gegen ...................... 223
7 Sengge: A Lama's Knowledge and Its Vicissitudes ............ 259
8 The Chorji Lama: Inheriting from the Past in a New World ... 289
9 Regroupings of Laity ....................................... 316
10 Tradition and Archivization ................................ 341
Epilogue: Dispersion and Creation .......................... 363
Bibliography ............................................... 387
Index ...................................................... 413
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