The Journey of Zhao Xian and the Exile of Royal Descendants in the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)1
During Mongol rule in China and Tibet, especially under the reign of Qubilai Qan (1215-1294), the Mongol rulers had established the unspoken tradition of banishing for political reasons disliked Chinese and Korean royal family members to Tibet, and Tibetan and Mongolian royal family members to South...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Dynamics in the history of religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 10, Pages: 196-223 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion in Asien
B Asia B Religion B Asien-Studien B Religionswissenschaften B History |
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| Summary: | During Mongol rule in China and Tibet, especially under the reign of Qubilai Qan (1215-1294), the Mongol rulers had established the unspoken tradition of banishing for political reasons disliked Chinese and Korean royal family members to Tibet, and Tibetan and Mongolian royal family members to South China. These two areas were both culturally alien and geographically remote to the recipients of exile orders. But destinations of exile such as Sakya and Hangzhou had religious prestige in Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism respectively. The paper scrutinises the life of the last Song Emperor Zhao Xian 趙㬎 (1271-1323), who had travelled extensively across China and Tibet, and became a Tibetan Buddhist monk then known as Lhatsün (Tib. Lha btsun). From various sources in different language and literary forms, we are able to not only reconstruct Zhao’s travel routes and identity transformations, but also learn the motives and processes of Buddhist exile for the royals during the Mongol Yuan元Dynasty (1271-1368) through physical migration in space and textual reproduction in time. This paper demonstrates the role Buddhism played in cross-cultural and cross-regional contacts in the lives of individual migrants. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dynamics in the history of religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004366152_008 |