Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood - A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire

Matthew King tells the story of one Mongolian monk's efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times. He reveals an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject.

KingMatthew W.: Matthew King (PhD, Religious Studies, Toronto) is Assistant Professor of Transnational Buddhism at the University of California at Riverside. He has published articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, History and Anthropology, Mongol Studies, Himalaya, and Mongolian Buddhism Past and Present; he has won SSRC and Mellon Foundation grants. His first book, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire, is forthcoming from Columbia.Matthew W. King is assistant professor in transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.