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Book III
Buddhist philosophy studies
canonical Tibetan texts
Capuchin Fathers
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China Illustrata
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early European exploration Tibet
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Farrukh Siyar
Father Desideri
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Grand Lama
Grand Lamd
historical ethnography
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Innumerable Centuries
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Ippolito Desideri
Jesuit missions Asia
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Midday
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Mountain Oxen
Muhammad Shah
Musk Deer
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Reborn
religious syncretism
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Society Of Jesus
Thibettan Language
Tibetan anthropology
Word Of Mouth
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780415346788
- Weight: 720g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1932.
As well as an extensive introduction, this edition contains notes to all four books, a bibliographical index, a general index and an index of Tibetan words. The introduction is particularly valuable in that it sets the importance of Desideri's mission in the general context of the Jesuit Missions to Tibet.
In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the natural world to the sociological and anthropological aspects of the people and a complete exposition of Lamaism. His is the only complete reconstruction that we possess of the Tibetan religion, founded entirely on canonical texts. And all of this more than a century before Europeans had any knowledge of the Tibetan language.
