Among the Bhotiyas and Their Neighbors (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Among the Bhotiyas and Their Neighbors Tibet, the "Great Closed Land," has in more recent years been an object of special interest to missionaries, and their Boards. This "roof of the world" may well be called the "Crown of Asia," as her greatest rivers, like the Hoang Ho and Yangtse Kiang of China, the Irrawadi of Burma, the Brahmaputra, Ganges, and Indus of India, rise there to flow down and water vast countries. Here in this great table land ranging from 10,000 to 14,000 feet above the sea, rules the Grand Lama, "sea of wisdom," temporal and spiritual pope. Shut in by an encircling parapet of mighty mountains fringed with the birch and cedar, he and his followers, a very interesting people, wish to be left to their fancied wisdom. No wonder that missionary aspiration turning to the few remaining fields, seeks to seize this mysterious "crown" land, this home of the mahatmas, "great spirits," and plant it among the many crowns on Jesus´ brow. Early in the 18th century Jesuit missionaries penetrated to the heart of the country, and effected a lodgment in Lhassa, the capital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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