"More than the promised land" : letters and relations from Tibet by the Jesuit missionary António de Andrade (1580-1634) / translated and introduced by Michael J. Sweet ; edited by Leonard Zwilling
- Author:
- Andrade, António de, 1580-1634
- Published:
- Chestnut Hill, MA : Institute of Jesuit Sources, Boston College, [2017]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2017
- Physical Description:
- v, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Sweet, Michael J. (Michael Jay), 1945- and Zwilling, Leonard
- Series:
- Sources for the history of Jesuit missions ; no. 4
- Summary:
- The first complete translation of the letters and relations of the Portuguese Jesuit António de Andrade concerning Tibet, along with an edition of two previously unpublished letters and a historical introduction, will serve as a valuable primary source on the mission Andrade founded in the western Tibetan kingdom of Guge. His vivid observations of the dangerous journey over the Himalayas and his impressions of Tibetan society and religion have informed the Western representation of Tibet and will be of interest to scholars and students of the Jesuit missions in Asia, pre-modern Tibetan history, and the first contacts between Western Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism.
- Subject(s):
- Andrade, António de, 1580-1634
- Jesuits—Missions—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—Early works to 1800
- Jesuits—Missions—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—History—17th century—Sources
- Jesuits—Biography
- Jesuits
- 1600-1699
- Missions
- China—Tibet Autonomous Region
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—History—17th century—Sources
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781947617018 (hardback) and 194761701X (hardback)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the William A. Slater Fund; 2017
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