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The high road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the first British expedition to Tibet
The high road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the first British expedition to Tibet
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Teltscher, Kate
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2006
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1st American ed.
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English
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From the Book - 1st American ed.
Part I : Bengal & Bhutan 1774
The Panchen Lama's letter
Private commissions to Mr Bogle
Lazy, lolling palankins
Perpetual ascending and descending
The first European in these parts
Monkish to the greatest degree
Bloody work
Part II: Tibet 1774-1775
God's vicegerent
To Tashilhunpo
Thibet vocabulary
The business of a traveller
Living like a Thibetian
A last farewell
Part III: Bengal, Tibet & China 1775-1793
Melancholy hall
Tibet garden
To adventure for possibilities
The emperor's invitation
The meeting between the two
The pure light of the void
The tank
The golden urn.
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Bogle, George
Bogle, George, 1746-1781 -- Travel -- China -- Tibet
British
Discovery and exploration
Dpal-ldan-ye-śes
Dpal-ldan-ye-śes, Panchen Lama III, 1738?-1780 -- Travel -- China
Tibet (China) -- Discovery and exploration -- British
Travel
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9780374217006
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