Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular imagination of Tibetan Buddhist spirituality in contemporary China. In turn, the author explores the broader socio-cultural implications of such revivals.

1. Introduction: Mise-en-scene of Tibetan Buddhism in China 2. Tulkus, Genuine Charisma, and Its Transmissible Interiority in Kham and Amdo 3. Spirit Mountains, Sacred Sites, and Territorial Charisma 4. Pilgrimage from Han China to High Altitude Enlightenment 5. Money, Freedom, and the Price of Charismatic Teachings 6. Re-understanding Scientism, Scapegoating, and the Marginality of Religion in China from a Tibetan Perspective 7. Buddhism, Ethnic Nationalism, Destigmatization of Tibet in the Cyberspace of Urban Tibetans 8. Conclusion: Globalization, Performance Religion, Mindscaping the Eco-Buddhist Tibet

Dan Smyer Yu is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.