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Jesuit on the Roof of the World [Sale Edition]
Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet, 1716-1721
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| Author(s) : Pomplun, Trent |
| Publishers Price : £19.99 |
| Wisdom Price : £6.80(save 66%)
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| ISBN : 0195377869 | | EAN : 9780195377866 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 302 | | Size : 242 x 164mm | | Publisher : Oxford Univ Press, New York | | Published : 2009 |
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Synopsis:
The first full-length study of Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit explorer and missionary who traveled in Tibet from 1715 to 1721. Jesuit priests often served as the avant-garde as European powers expanded in the early modern era. Pomplun's work is based on close readings of a wide range of primary sources in Tibetan, Italian, and Latin, and follows the Jesuit's journey across Tibet's western deserts, his entry into the court of the Mongol chieftain Lhazang Khan, and his flight during the war that shook the Himalayan kingdom during his stay. Desideri's letters and later accounts of his travels relate the encounter between his Jesuit philosophy and the scholasticism of Gelug monks; the personal conflict between his Roman Catholic beliefs and his appreciation of Tibetan religion and culture; and the political intrigues that led to the establishment of the Chinese protectorate in 1720. Desideri's writings also offer a unique glimpse of Europe's fascination with the land of snows.
"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 the theological tracts alike, the reader comes to understand from the inside the ambitions and the disappointments of this seminal moment in the history of what we now call interreligious dialogue. Desideri's fascinating story helps us appreciate his complex combination of admiration, accomodation, and refutation of Tibetan Buddhist thought, all set against the turbulent period in Lhasa during the life of the Sixth Dalai Lama." Janet Gyatso.
"This is a very important book. It is the first in English seriously to treat the life and work of Ippolito Desideri, an eighteenth-century Italian Jesuit who was the first Christian intellectual to engage Tibetan Buddhism in its own terms, to the point of writing extensive treatises in scholastic Tibetan. Pomplun is a first-rate Tibetologist as well as a good theologian, and he writes beautifully. The result is a book of considerable intellectual weight that is a delight to read." Paul J.Griffiths.
"Previous scholarship has not clearly situated Desideri in the context of his times and of his spiritual and intellectual formation...Pomplun vividly portrays Desiferi's world in its remarkable contours, at once at the intersections of Asia and Europe and medieval and modern. This book is a pleasure to read, and one, at last, that I can recommend to readers in both European and Asian studies." Matthew Kapstien. |
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