Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Mediations and margins / Matthew T. Kapstein -- Sites of encounter -- The treaty Temple of the Turquoise Grove / Matthew T. Kapstein -- The commissioner's commissions : late-thirteenth-century Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist art in Hangzhou under the Mongols / Rob Linrothe -- Dabaojigong and the regional tradition of ming sino-Tibetan painting in the kingdom of Lijiang / Karl Debreczeny -- Missions from the frontiers -- Tibetan Buddhism, perceived and imagined, along the ming-era sino-Tibetan frontier / Elliot Sperling -- The "reverend Chinese" (Gyanakpa Tsang) at Labrang Monastery / Paul Nietupski -- Gangkar Rinpoché between Tibet and China : a Tibetan lama among ethnic Chinese in the 1930s to 1950s / Carmen Meinert -- The modern Chinese discovery of Tibetan Buddhism -- Translating Buddhism from Tibetan to Chinese in early-twentieth-century China (1931-1951) / Gray Tuttle -- Tibetan learning in the contemporary Chinese Yogãcãra School / Zhihua Yao -- The "Chinese lama" Nenghai (1886-1967) : doctrinal tradition and teaching strategies of a Gelukpa master in republican China / Ester Bianchi -- China and the Dalai Lama in the twentieth century -- The thirteenth Dalai Lama's visit to Beijing in 1908 : in search of a new kind of chaplain-donor relationship / Fabienne Jagou -- The Taiwanese connection : politics, piety, and patronage in transnational Tibetan Buddhism / Abraham Zablocki.