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Explorers of the Himalayas: Heinrich Harrer, St. George Littledale, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Peter Aufschnaiter, Frederick Marshman Bailey

Explorers of the Himalayas: Heinrich Harrer, St. George Littledale, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Peter Aufschnaiter, Frederick Marshman Bailey


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Heinrich Harrer, St. George Littledale, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Peter Aufschnaiter, Frederick Marshman Bailey, John Weston Brooke, Estvo Cacella, Wilhelm Filchner, Su-Lin Young. Excerpt: Estvo Cacella was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary . Cacella was born in Aviz in 1585, joined the Jesuits at the age of nineteen, and sailed for India in 1614 where he worked for some years in Kerala . In 1626, Father Cacella and Father Cabral, another younger Jesuit priest, travelled from Cochin to Bengal where they spent six months preparing for a journey through Bhutan, which would eventually take them to Tibet where they founded a mission in the town Shigatse (near the River Brahmaputra ), the residence of the Panchen Lama and of the great Tibetan monastery of Tashilhunpo . Cacella arrived in Shigatse in November 1627 and Cabral followed in January 1628. Although the Jesuits were well received and had high hopes for the success of the mission in Shigatse, it only lasted a few years. Father Cacella's poor health led to his death during 1630 in the high Tibetan plateau. Chagri Monastery, Bhutan While in Bhutan, Father Cacella and Father Cabral met Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel, and at the end of a stay of nearly eight months in the country, Father Cacella wrote a long letter from Chagri Monastery, to his superior in Cochin in the Malabar Coast; it was a report, The Relacao, relating the progress of their travels. This is the sole report of Shabdrung that remains. Father Cacella was the first European to enter Bhutan and travel through the Himalayas in winter. Also it was Cacella who, for the first time, described to European civilization a fictional place called Shambala (a Sanskrit term indicating "peace/tranquility/happiness"). According to Tibetan Buddhism this is an ideal country located no...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155350516
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 82 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155350510
  • Publisher Date: 03 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Heinrich Harrer, St. George Littledale, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Peter Aufschnaiter, Frederick Marshman Bailey
  • Width: 229 mm


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