Vesna A. Wallace is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society (2015), among other books.Uranchimeg Tsultemin is the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies and an associate professor of art history at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. She is the author of A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia (2021), among other books.

Bringing together two leading specialists in Mongolian Buddhism, Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism transforms our understanding of the textual, aesthetic, and social history of one of the world’s most lavish and inspired, but relatively unknown, Buddhist societies. Herein, readers will find both a rich history of Mongolian Buddhism across the imperial-socialist transition and an innovative model for collaborative work across the disciplinary frontiers of religious studies and art history. These pages will be read and read again by generations of scholars and students.

• AcknowledgmentsConventionsIntroduction, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg TsulteminPart I: Memory, Imagination, and ImageryIntroduction to Part I, by Vesna A. Wallace1. Aspiring for Śambhala: Desire, Imagination, and Linguistic Imagery, by Vesna A. Wallace2. Imagination in the Ritual of the Transference of Consciousness to Śambhala and Other Related Practices, by Vesna A. Wallace3. Imagination in Repelling the Barbarian Troops Through Ritual, by Vesna A. WallacePart II: The Jebtsundampa’s Guru Yoga: Building Imagined Community in the Present, Past, and FutureIntroduction to Part II, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin4. The Supreme Teacher, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin5. The Historical Consciousness of the Community, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin6. Projection Into the Future: Visual Supplication for the Arrival of the Next Teacher, by Uranchimeg TsulteminConclusion, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg TsulteminAppendix A: Translations and Transliterations of Mongolian Inscriptions on the Two PaintingsAppendix B: Consecration InscriptionNotesBibliographyIndex

Vesna A. Wallace is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society (2015), among other books.Uranchimeg Tsultemin is the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies and an associate professor of art history at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. She is the author of A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia (2021), among other books.

Bringing together two leading specialists in Mongolian Buddhism, Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism transforms our understanding of the textual, aesthetic, and social history of one of the world’s most lavish and inspired, but relatively unknown, Buddhist societies. Herein, readers will find both a rich history of Mongolian Buddhism across the imperial-socialist transition and an innovative model for collaborative work across the disciplinary frontiers of religious studies and art history. These pages will be read and read again by generations of scholars and students.

• AcknowledgmentsConventionsIntroduction, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg TsulteminPart I: Memory, Imagination, and ImageryIntroduction to Part I, by Vesna A. Wallace1. Aspiring for Śambhala: Desire, Imagination, and Linguistic Imagery, by Vesna A. Wallace2. Imagination in the Ritual of the Transference of Consciousness to Śambhala and Other Related Practices, by Vesna A. Wallace3. Imagination in Repelling the Barbarian Troops Through Ritual, by Vesna A. WallacePart II: The Jebtsundampa’s Guru Yoga: Building Imagined Community in the Present, Past, and FutureIntroduction to Part II, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin4. The Supreme Teacher, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin5. The Historical Consciousness of the Community, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin6. Projection Into the Future: Visual Supplication for the Arrival of the Next Teacher, by Uranchimeg TsulteminConclusion, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg TsulteminAppendix A: Translations and Transliterations of Mongolian Inscriptions on the Two PaintingsAppendix B: Consecration InscriptionNotesBibliographyIndex

Vesna A. Wallace is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society (2015), among other books.Uranchimeg Tsultemin is the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies and an associate professor of art history at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design. She is the author of A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia (2021), among other books.

Bringing together two leading specialists in Mongolian Buddhism, Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism transforms our understanding of the textual, aesthetic, and social history of one of the world’s most lavish and inspired, but relatively unknown, Buddhist societies. Herein, readers will find both a rich history of Mongolian Buddhism across the imperial-socialist transition and an innovative model for collaborative work across the disciplinary frontiers of religious studies and art history. These pages will be read and read again by generations of scholars and students.

• AcknowledgmentsConventionsIntroduction, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg TsulteminPart I: Memory, Imagination, and ImageryIntroduction to Part I, by Vesna A. Wallace1. Aspiring for Śambhala: Desire, Imagination, and Linguistic Imagery, by Vesna A. Wallace2. Imagination in the Ritual of the Transference of Consciousness to Śambhala and Other Related Practices, by Vesna A. Wallace3. Imagination in Repelling the Barbarian Troops Through Ritual, by Vesna A. WallacePart II: The Jebtsundampa’s Guru Yoga: Building Imagined Community in the Present, Past, and FutureIntroduction to Part II, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin4. The Supreme Teacher, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin5. The Historical Consciousness of the Community, by Uranchimeg Tsultemin6. Projection Into the Future: Visual Supplication for the Arrival of the Next Teacher, by Uranchimeg TsulteminConclusion, by Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg TsulteminAppendix A: Translations and Transliterations of Mongolian Inscriptions on the Two PaintingsAppendix B: Consecration InscriptionNotesBibliographyIndex