Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia 1603-1721

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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9788173031052 ISBN: 8173031053 Label: Books Faith,India Manufacturer: Books Faith,India Number Of Pages: 233 Publication Date: 2002-06-01 Publisher: Books Faith,India Studio: Books Faith,India
Editorial Reviews: With special reference to Tibet.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: C. Wessels work and the discovery of Tibet by Priest Andrade Comment: When we read this book, we are forced to feel atraction by those courageose men whom envolved the mistyries of Central Asia of the sevetheen to eightheen centuries. One of those men was Pª. Antonio of Andrade, a jesuit monk born in the village of Oleiros, Portgual, during the year of 1580. With 20 year of age, in 1600, we joined the fleed of vice-King Saldanha to India,togheter wiht nintheen fellow moks both italian and portguese. In 1624, as both the letters of priest Andrade and the scientific study of C. Wessels show, he manged take part on a budhist journey to Tsaparang, in nowadays part of modern Tibet. During this frist journey he became the first europeen to clim the Himalia and also he found the main source of River Ganges. In Tsanparang father Andrade found a jesuit mission, the first ever in Tibet, with the consent of the so called Kingndom of Guge. The importance of Wessels work is exterme beucause it is the most comprheesive study in Andrade's(and others) travells trough central asia. As mather of fact the only study in Portuguese language we can compare to the work of Wessels, is a history study of Andrade's letters by Francisco Maria Pereira Esteves, published in 1921 by Coimbra Universty Press. This way we realize that for the study of Tibetan History and the it's relations to what we call western civilazation is essential to read and analyse C. Wessels "Early Jesuit Travellers In Central Asia". To me as student of History, Wessels's revels itself as source of konwleged, a stronghold wich makes History last and not fall in to "oblivium". More Reviews