Common Ground: Tibetan Buddhist Expansion and Qing China's Inner Asia

The Qing empire and the Dalai Lama-led Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism
came into contact in the eighteenth century. Their interconnections
would shape regional politics and the geopolitical history of Inner Asia
for centuries to come. In Common Ground, Lan Wu analyzes how
Tibetan Buddhists and the Qing imperial rulers interacted and negotiated
as both sought strategies to expand their influence in
eighteenth-century Inner Asia. In so doing, she recasts the Qing empire,
seeing it not as a monolithic project of imperial administration but as
a series of encounters among different communities.