What other institutional mechanisms were available to the Qianlong emperor for his efficacious partaking in the Tibetan Buddhist world? Focusing exceedingly on emperors, the Qianlong emperor in particular, results in an inadequate under- standing of Qing China and the Tibetan Buddhist world. Ishihama is also cautious about competitions for Manchu patronage within the Tibetan Buddhist world. Mukden’ s Shisheng monastery demonstrates, in Ishiha- ma’ s opinion, the missionary accomplishments of the Sakya School in the early seventeenth century. But the Geluk hegemony deeply changed the historical nar- ratives of the time; Ishihama’ s short discussion is inspiring, but one wonders if the Geluk School fully excluded others in the seventeenth century. Research shows that other schools were present at the Qing court with support from powerful princes at late as the 1730s. Matters were also complicated within the Geluk School. Chapter 10 indicates that the Sixth Panchen Lama tactically added a figure from central Tibet into the Amdo-originated Lcang Skya lineage of incarna- tions. Moreover, much attention is paid to highly respected Buddhists at the court. However they also traveled and wrote extensively: for instance, the Lcang Skya spent considerable time on the road and produced an enormous amount of writing. What, then, can one learn about the Buddhist world and the Qing at the margins from these writings? In other words, studying Qing-Tibetan Buddhist relations begins with the court, but should not stop there. These questions aside, this book engages Qing imperial management with the Tibetan Buddhist world thoughtfully. It should thus not only be of interest to scholars of Tibetan history and of Qing frontier management, but also be inspiring to those interested in religion in multiethnic empires in early modern time. Some readers can also utilize the appendixes, which include Romanized versions of Mongolian, Tibetan, and Manchu stele inscriptions, and Chinese materials in the original script (pp. 260–305). Several chapters, such as chapter 5, on the significance of the Yonghegong in Beijing, and chapter 10, which com- pares the differences in reconstructing the lineage history of the Qianlong emperor and that of the Lcang Skya, would be particularly important to translate into English for a wider audience. LAN WU Columbia University lw2228@columbia.edu Tibet: A History . By SAM VAN SCHAIK. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. xxiii, 324 pp. $35.00 (cloth) doi:10.1017/S0021911812001489 As Research Manager at the International Dunhuang Project, Sam van Schaik has helped lead the way in preserving, cataloging, and studying rare Tibetan Book Reviews—Inner Asia 1135 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911812001489 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 207.90.12.18, on 25 Apr 2020 at 00:48:46, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at