Three Years in Tibet

Chapter 5: Sketch-map.

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About This Book

The narrative recounts a pilgrim's extended journey into Himalayan regions in search of Buddhist manuscripts and comparative study of Tibetan and other translations. It blends vivid travel episodes—arduous mountain crossings, sickness, threats, and acts of rescue—with intimate portraits of monastic life, cave hermits, and ritual practice. The author contrasts literal Tibetan renderings with more interpretive versions and reflects on textual fidelity and religious meaning. Frequent descriptions of landscape and local customs ground scholarly aims in lived experience. Underlying reflections consider ethical consequences of generosity and suffering encountered along the route.

Photogravures.

		TO FACE PAGE
1.	The Author in 1909.	Frontispiece.
2.	The Author just before leaving Japan.	1
3.	Rai Bahāḍur Saraṭ Chanḍra Ḍās.	11
4.	Lama Sengchen Dorjechan.	15
5.	The Author meditating under the Boḍhi-tree.	25
6.	Passport in Tibetan for the Author’s return to Tibet in the future.	645
7.	The Author as a Tibetan Lama at Darjeeling on his return.	667
8.	The Author performing ceremonies in Tibetan costume.	669
9.	The Prime Minister of Nepāl, H. H. Chanḍra Shamsīr.	685
10.	The Commander-in-Chief of Nepāl, H. E. Bhim Shamsīr.	697
11.	Mount Gaurīshaṅkara, the highest peak in the world. (At the end of the volume).

Sketch-map.

1.	Chart of the Route followed by the Author. (At the end of the volume.)

THE AUTHOR JUST BEFORE LEAVING JAPAN.