Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Ruling Tibet: Aristocratic Lineages, Buddhist Narratives, and Bureaucratic Innovations
Fernanda Pirie
2. Governing Through Non-Official Agents: Women in the Diplomatic Activities of the Tibetan Imperial Court
Emanuela Garatti
3. The Figure of the King in Tibetan Texts from Khara-Khoto
Alexander Zorin
4. Sanctioned by the Great Khan: The Political Career of Chögyal Phakpa
Daniel Wojahn
5. The Tsangpa Hegemony of Central Tibet: A Reappraisal
Jetsun Deleplanque
6. The Laws of Güüshi Khan and the Kökenuur Assembly
Max Oidtmann
7. The Blazing Gem and the Enthronement of the Desi Sangyé Gyatso
Ian MacCormack
8. Re-evaluating Power Structures: The Intricacies of Internal Factions within the Ganden Phodrang
Government (1700 –1703)
Darig Thokmay
9. The Khoshuds and the Policy of the Early Ganden Phodrang in East Tibet: The Rise and Fall of Pön Kandu (Dpon Mkha’ ’gro)
Peter Schwieger
10. The Riverine Polity: A New Model for Tibetan Governments in Domé, 15th–19 th Centuries
Gyatso Marnyi
11. An Analysis of the Ganden Phodrang’s State-Building Process with a Focus on its Final Phase of Modernization
Alice Travers
12. The Ceremonial State of the Ganden Phodrang
Martin A. Mills
