ISBN: 0747584842
Godina izdanja: 2006
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Hardcover BLOOMSBURYLONDON- 317 pages.Formerlibrary book with libraray stamp on .outside pages,library slip.Good condition without underlining or markings.

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.