JEWEL TRANSLUCENT SUTRA: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century [Brill's Inner Asian Library, No. 8]

by Elverskog, Johan

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Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003 In publisher's original shrinkwrap. xii, 388 pp. Map, footnotes, word index, bibliography. This is the first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the "Erdeni Tunumal Sudur," an unique seventeenth-century Mongolian history about the sixteenth-century Mongolian ruler Altan Khan and his descendants. Elverskog provides a transcription of the Mongolian text, a word index, and a full English translation, as well as an extensive commentary on the historical events of Altan Khan's reign (especially the 1550 attack on Beijing, the 1571 peace accord with the Ming, and the 1578 meeting with the Dalai Lama and the subsequent Buddhist conversion). In particular, the author shows how Altan Khan's reformulation of the boundaries of Dayan Khan's Mongol nation and state catalyzed the political fragmentation of the Mongols with dire consequences in relation to the rising Manchu Qing state. This book is thus vital for a better understanding of Mongol history during the late Ming.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). 25 x 17 cm.

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