Published by Columbia University Press in April 2019, “Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing” by Matthew King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject.

Published in Japan by Union Press in March 2019, “The Resurgence of ‘Buddhist Government’: Tibetan-Mongolian Relations in the Modern World” by Yumiko Ishihama, Makoto Tachibana, Ryosuke Kobayashi and Takehiko Inoue is a compilation of essays examining the interrelationships in the Tibetan Buddhist world encompassing Tibet, Mongolia, and Kalmykia.

Published by River Books in September 2018, “Mural Art – Studies on Paintings in Asia” is a series of 10 articles by the best scholars on mural art as it survives in Afghanistan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Myanmar, Thailand and Mongolia – from the 5th to the 18th century.

High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written in December 2014 for the Tibetan service of Radio Free Asia and published on her blog on April 1, 2015.

Published in December 2014 by University Of Hawai’i Press, “Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity” by Franck Bille is a timely and groundbreaking study of the anti-Chinese sentiments currently widespread in Mongolia. 

Published in November 2014 by the University Of Hawai’i Press, “The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia” by Christopher Kaplonski looks at Mongolia’s new socialist government in 1921 and how they would combat the influence of the dominant Buddhist establishment to win the hearts and minds of the Mongolian people.

Ngawang Dorje, also known as Agvan Dorjiev, is a Buryat Mongolian, a “Geshe Lharampa” Lama from Drepung Monastery; he used to be a Minister of the Kashag and acted as a diplomat under the 13th Dalai Lama.   High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost by Woeser written in August 2014 for the Mandarin service of Radio Free Asia […]