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Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet
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| #196353 in Books | imusti | 2009-11-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x1.10 x9.30l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | Oxford University Press USA||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Study|By Jonathan Homrighausen|I first heard about Desideri in my summer Buddhist Studies course in Nepal. In the early eighteenth century, he entered Nepal, and was the first missionary to take up extended residence there. (Others had tried, but even killed by disease or the hardship of trekking the Himalayas.) Sadly, much Desideri scholarship and sources are not ava|||"A great feat of historiography, this at-once sympathetic and unblinking account of Desideri's missionary career and the collective fantasies behind it makes for terrific reading. Treated to a feast of intimate details drawn from letters, journals, and theolo
Jesuit on the Roof of the World is the first full-length study in any language of Ippolito Desideri (1684-1733), a Jesuit explorer and missionary who traveled in Tibet from 1715 to 1721.
Based on close readings of a wide range of primary sources in Tibetan, Italian, and Latin, Jesuit on the Roof of the World follows Desideri's journey across the great Western deserts of Tibet, his entry into the court of the Mongol chieftain Lhazang Khan, and hi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet | Trent Pomplun. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
