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RITUALS AS WAR PROPAGANDA

IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TIBETAN GANDEN PHODRANG STATE

IN THE MID-17TH CENTURY

Solomon George FitzHerbert* 1

What the Tibetan literary record o  en lacks in sources on “ hard” aspects of political power in Tibet before the nineteenth century— sources on military and economic factors that helped determine events— it more than compensates for in its abundance of sources on the “ so  ” or cultural aspects of power. These include, in particular, sources on the legitimation and maintenance of authority through

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Rituals as War Propaganda in the Establishment of the Tibetan Ganden Phodrang State in the Mid-17th Century

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