Was socialist China's fatal blow to the Tibetan theocracy in 1959 an atheist assault? Peng Hai examines how Chinese cinema justified the People's Liberation Army's dismantling of institutional Tibetan Buddhism. In the Chinese cultural war on religion, Mao and the People's Liberation Army surpassed the Dalai Lama, the pontiff of Tibetan Buddhism, and the old Lamaist establishment as the new icons of salvation and values.
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Thursday, February 20
The Consecration of Mao in the Religious Economy of Socialist Tibet
Time:
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Presenter:
Peng Hai
Location:
246A Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with World History Center and Department of History Carnegie Mellon