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Author: David MacdonaldPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Twenty Years in Tibet. Intimate and Personal Experiences, Etc. [With Plates, Including Portraits and Maps.].
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Author: David MacdonaldTwenty Years in Tibet
Author: David MacdonaldPublisher:
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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With Younghusband in Tibet, Etc. [With Plates, Including a Portrait, and Maps.].
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Author: Alan Ross WarwickThree Years in Tibet
Author: Ekai KawaguchiPublisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736417098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 755
Book Description
I was lately reading the Holy Text of the Saḍḍharma-Puṇdarīka (the Aphorisms of the White Lotus of the Wonderful or True Law) in a Samskṛṭ manuscript under a Boḍhi-tree near Mṛga-Ḍāva (Sāranāṭh), Benares. Here our Blessed Lord Buḍḍha Shākya-Muni taught His Holy Ḍharma just after the accomplishment of His Buḍḍhahood at Buḍḍhagayā. Whilst doing so, I was reminded of the time, eighteen years ago, when I had read the same text in Chinese at a great Monastery named Ohbakusang at Kyoto in Japan, a reading which determined me to undertake a visit to Tibet. It was in March, 1891, that I gave up the Rectorship of the Monastery of Gohyakurakan in Tokyo, and left for Kyoto, where I remained living as a hermit for about three years, totally absorbed in the study of a large collection of Buḍḍhist books in the Chinese language. My object in doing so was to fulfil a long-felt desire to translate the texts into Japanese in an easy style from the difficult and unintelligible Chinese. But I afterwards found that it was not a wise thing to rely upon the Chinese texts alone, without comparing them with Tibetan translations as well as with the original Samskṛṭ texts which are contained in Mahāyāna Buḍḍhism. The Buḍḍhist Samskṛṭ texts were to be found in Tibet and Nepāl. Of course, many of them had been discovered by European Orientalists in Nepāl and a few in other parts of India and Japan. But those texts had not yet been found which included the most important manuscripts of which Buḍḍhist scholars were in great want. Then again, the Tibetan texts were famous for being[vi] more accurate translations than the Chinese. Now I do not say that the Tibetan translations are superior to the Chinese. As literal translations, I think that they are superior; but, for their general meaning, the Chinese are far better than the Tibetan.
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Peter Aufschnaiter's Eight Years in Tibet
Author: Peter AufschnaiterPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This is a highly illustrated, personal account of Peter Aufschnaiter's eight-year sojourn in Tibet, characterized by his empathy for and understanding of Tibetan culture and enriched by his photographs and sketches. The text is a sensitive record of the Tibetans and their way of life and ends of the eve of the Chinese invasion that was to wreak such irreversible damage to this unique culture.
Tibet; Record of a Journey
Author: Alan WinningtonPublisher:
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Category : Tibet (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
The Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.