Author(s)

Wang Xiaoting ¹, Li Yang ¹, Zhao Jiangxin ¹, Li Zhongjie ², Tenzin Jorden ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Humilities, Tibet University, Lhasa, 850000, China
² School of Economics and Management, Tibet University, Lhasa, 850000, China

Corresponding Author

Wang Xiaoting

ABSTRACT

In the post-Genghis Khan era, the main way to maintain the regime of The Yuan Dynasty was no longer military conquest. With the increasingly close ethnic integration, the Yuan Empire was in urgent need of a religion that could be generally accepted by the people to promote cultural identity and maintain the unity of the multi-ethnic country. In 1247, the “Liangzhou Alliance” between Broadan, the third son of Ogodei, emperor Taizong of Yuan Dynasty, and Sakya Pandita, the religious leader of the later Tibetan region of Tibet, was not only a symbolic event that Tibet was incorporated into The territory of China, but also the beginning of the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism from The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Mongolian Plateau through Liangzhou. This change is essentially the result of the game between Shamanism and Sakya. It is helpful to explore the cultural identity significance of “Liangzhou Alliance” to the Han, Tibetan and Mongolian nationalities by investigating the transformation process of the rulers' belief from Shamanism to Tibetan Buddhism (Sakya school) in the Yuan Dynasty.

KEYWORDS

Shamanism, Sakya, Gotan, Liangzhou union, The post-genghis khan era

CITE THIS PAPER

Wang Xiaoting, Li Yang, Zhao Jiangxin, Li Zhongjie, Tenzin Jorden. The Game between Shamanism and Sakya School: the Cultural Identity Significance of “Liangzhou Alliance” to Han, Tibetan and Mongolian Nationalities. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2021) Vol. 3: 17-23. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2021.030604.

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