Mission To Tibet

Author : Ippolito Desideri
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861716760
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission to Tibet written by Ippolito Desideri and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 - 1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian missionary was most notably the first european to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan schol ars and monks - and from a profound study of its primary texts. while there, Desideri was an eyewitness to some of the most tumultuous events in Tibet's history, of which he left us a vivid and dramatic account. Desideri explores key Buddhist concepts including emptiness and rebirth, together with their philosophical and ethical implications, with startling detail and sophistication. This book also includes an introduction situating the work in the context of Desideri's life and the intellectual and religious milieu of eighteenth-century Catholicism.

Author : Trent Pomplun
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195377869
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit on the Roof of the World written by Trent Pomplun and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - And highly controversial - appeal of Hermetic philosophy in the Asian missions; the political underbelly of the Chinese Rites Controversy; and the persistent European fascination with the land of snows."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : George Bogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108022553
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet written by George Bogle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed first-hand accounts of the first British diplomatic voyages to Tibet, first published in 1876.

Author : George Bogle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa written by George Bogle and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ippolito Desideri
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415346788
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Account of Tibet written by Ippolito Desideri and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the eatural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the people and a complete exposition of Lamaism.

Author : Namgyal Lhamo Taklha
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 9390752442
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Fact Finding Mission to T ibet From Exile 1979 written by Namgyal Lhamo Taklha and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674977742
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispelling the Darkness written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri wrote a treatise in classical Tibetan intended to refute key Buddhist doctrines and dispel the darkness of idolatry from Tibet. Dispelling the Darkness provides extended excerpts from this unfinished masterpiece and a full translation of a companion work.

Author : Trent Pomplun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199703340
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit on the Roof of the World written by Trent Pomplun and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri traveled in Tibet from 1715-1721. Describing his spiritual warfare against the Tibetan 'pope', the missionary offers a unique glimpse into the theological problem of the salvation of non-Christians in early modern theology. Pomplun follows his journey.

Author : Thomas Laird
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196624
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into Tibet written by Thomas Laird and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating” story of espionage that “fills a blank space in the hidden history of the Cold War” (Houston Chronicle). Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949–1950 American undercover expedition led by America’s first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan—a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet’s independence months before China invaded. A Nepal-based American journalist reveals how the clash between the State Department and the CIA, as well as unguided actions by field agents, hastened the Chinese invasion of Tibet. A gripping narrative of survival, courage, and intrigue among the nomads, princes, and warring armies of inner Asia, Into Tibet rewrites the accepted history behind the Chinese invasion of Tibet. “A gripping tale.” —The Washington Post

Author : Kate Teltscher
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408846756
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The High Road to China written by Kate Teltscher and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'Splendid and fascinating ... Teltscher has made remarkable use of her source material, aided by the constantly perceptive and witty tone of Bogle's own writings' - Patrick French, Sunday Times 'It is hard to imagine this fascinating story being told with greater sensitivity or skill' - Sunday Telegraph 'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian ... wholly original' - William Dalrymple 'Thrilling and fascinating ... Letters, journals and documents are woven into the flowing narrative, which is wonderfully vivid and evocative' - Jenny Uglow _______________ An unlikely meeting between a young Scotsman and the Panchen Lama gives birth to a remarkable friendship In 1774 British traders longed to open relations with China so they sent a young Scotsman, George Bogle, as an envoy to Tibet. Bogle became smitten by what he saw there, and struck up a remarkable friendship with the Panchen Lama. This gripping book tells the story of their two extraordinary journeys across some of the harshest and highest terrain in the world: Bogle's mission, and the Panchen Lama's state visit to China, on which British hopes were hung. Piecing together extracts from Bogle's private papers, Tibetan biographies of the Panchen Lama, the account of a wandering Hindu monk and the writings of the Emperor himself, Kate Teltscher deftly reconstructs the momentous meeting of these very different worlds.