This was the era I was referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Urn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Urn I was wrong about the dates. It was

This was the era I was referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Urn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Urn I was wrong about the dates. It was late 1700s not late 1800s. This paper is the one I read. It is a book review: https://academia.edu/resource/work/40611694 https://academia.edu/resource/work/40611694 The book being reviewed is titled, Forging the Golden Urn: the Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. Max Oidtmann