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Buddhist Pilgrim at the Shrines of Tibet
By: Gombozhab T. Tsybikov

Buddhist Pilgrim at the Shrines of Tibet, Gombozhab T. Tsybikov
 
Our Price: $138.00
Author: Yael Bentor (Editor)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789004340497
Publication Date: April 2017


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Tsybikov was the first scholar with a European education to visit Tibet and describe its monasteries and temples as an eyewitness traveler and an objective researcher. Tsybikov had two distinct advantages: an ethnic Buryat he could travel as a Buddhist pilgrim and thus have a chance of reaching its mysterious capital Lhasa, the religious and political center of Tibet, which was barred to outsiders, especially Europeans; as a scholar educated at a European university he had the historical and linguistic background to understand and describe what he saw. Tsybikov understood the secretive nature of the lama state and was careful to hide his work as a researcher. It was his journal that became the basis of A Buddhist Pilgrim at the Shrines of Tibet, which has both the vividness of a traveller's eyewitness account and the informed detachment of a scholar. As a record of both religious practices and the everyday life in Tibet before Chinese inroads during the twentieth century effaced that way of life, Tsybikov's book is a unique and invaluable snapshot of a lost culture.

Buddhist Pilgrim at the Shrines of Tibet, Gombozhab T. Tsybikov, Brill, Hardcover, 290 pp, $138.00

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