Tibetan-English Dictionary - Softcover

Das, Sarat Chandra

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ISBN 10: 817303009X ISBN 13: 9788173030093

Verlag: Books Faith, 1995

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Tibetan-English-Dictionary is useful for the Tibetan students and particularly to assist European scholars in the through exploration of the vast literature of Tibet, which besides indigenous works, comprises almost all the Buddhist religious works of India, including the great collections of the Kahgyar and the Tangyur.

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Born in Chittagong, eastern Bengal to a Hindu family, Sarat Chandra Das attended Presidency College, as a student of the University of Calcutta. In 1874 he was appointed headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling. In 1878, a Tibetan teacher, Lama Ugyen Gyatso arranged a passport for Sarat Chandra to go the monastery at Tashilhunpo. In June 1879, Das and Ugyen-gyatso left Darjeeling for the first of two journeys to Tibet. They remained in Tibet for six months, returning to Darjeeling with a large collection of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts which would become the basis for his later scholarship. Sarat Chandra spent 1880 in Darjeeling poring over the information he had obtained. In November 1881, Sarat Chandra and Ugyen-gyatso returned to Tibet, where they explored the Yarlung Valley, returning to India in January 1883.[1] For a time, he worked as a spy for the British, going on expeditions into Tibet to gather information on the Tibetans, Russians and Chinese. After he left Tibet, the reasons for his visit were discovered and many of the Tibetans who had befriended him suffered severe reprisals. For the latter part of his life, Das settled in Darjeeling. He named his house "Lhasa Villa" and played host to many notable guests including Sir Charles Alfred Bell and Ekai Kawaguchi. Johnson stated that, in 1882 Das met with Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, the two individuals notable for the founding of the Theosophy Societ

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• Verlag: Books Faith
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 817303009X
• ISBN 13: 9788173030093
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1387