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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2015
      March 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316160626
      9781108081818
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316160626
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.01kg, 792 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Buddhism and Eastern Religions, South Asian History, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Religion
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Buddhism and Eastern Religions, South Asian History, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Religion
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    A successful officer in the colonial Indian Medical Service, Glasgow-educated Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938) was fascinated by the landscapes and cultures of Darjeeling and Tibet, studied local languages, and spent his leisure time researching and writing on Tibetan topics. His earlier books The Buddhism of Tibet (1895) and Among the Himalayas (1899) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Waddell had attempted to enter Lhasa (then closed to foreigners) in disguise in 1892, but did not succeed until he accompanied the controversial British expedition to Tibet in 1903–4; he describes his arrival there as 'the realisation of a vivid and long-cherished dream'. His eyewitness account of how the 'peaceful mission' became an 'invasion' occupies the first half of this 1905 publication. The later chapters vividly portray the city and its inhabitants. The book includes more than a hundred of Waddell's own photographs, as well as maps and line drawings.

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