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An Account of Tibet
by Filippo De Filippi    


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ItemID: 16882 - Paperback - 560 Pages (Year: 2005)
Rupa ~ ISBN: 81-291-0777-5



  Synopsis

Divided into four books, the work describes the author’s journey of three and a half years form Rome to Lhasa and his mission work there; the nature, character, customs, and civil government of Tibet; Tibetan religion and its hierarchy; and his return, by a different route, to Europe, and of other missions in which he was engaged for some time.



 Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Jesuit Mission in Tibet, 1625-1721 by C Wessels, S J

PREFACE
By The Editor

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THIBET
And an Account of the Mission and Travels in that Country by Father Ippolito Desideri of the Society of Jesus, Written by Himself 1712-1733.

FOREWORD
By the Author

BOOK THE FIRST
Describing the Journey from Rome to Lhasa, Capital of Third Thibet, and my Mission there.

BOOK THE SECOND
Containing an Account of the Country, Customs and Civil Government of Thibet.

BOOK THE THIRD
Describing the False and Peculiar Religion Prevailing in Thibet

BOOK THE FOURTH
How the Mission Departed form Lhasa and returned to Europe after visiting other Missions.

APENDIX: Report on Tibet and its Routes by Emanoel Freyre, S J

Notes to Introduction By C Wessels, S J
Notes to Book the First
Notes to Book the Second
Notes to Book the Third
Notes to Book the Fourth

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF THE WORK QUOTED

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DESIDERI

GENERAL INDEX

INDEX OF TIBETAN WORDS

 


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