Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood

Matthew King (PhD, Religious Studies, Toronto) is Assistant Professor of Transnational Buddhism at the University of California at Riverside. He has published articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, History and Anthropology, Mongol Studies, Himalaya, and Mongolian Buddhism Past and Present; he has won SSRC and Mellon Foundation grants. His first book, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire, is forthcoming from Columbia.Matthew W. King is assistant professor in transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Gray Tuttle, coeditor of Sources of Tibetan Tradition:
King's obviously deep exposure to and grasp of a wide range of theoretical readings has made him alert and attentive to fields beyond his immediate interests in Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhist religion and society. This book combines effective argumentation, solid evidence, and a lyrical quality rare in specialized monographs.

Johan Elverskog, author of Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road:
This is not merely an intellectual history; it is religious studies at its best. Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood establishes a new paradigm in the study of Buddhist Asia, showcasing both how to study countermodern Buddhism and what it reveals.