IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
| |||||||||
|
| IIIFカラー高解像度 |
| Southern Tibet : vol.7 | |
| 南チベット : vol.7 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
引用情報
THE METROPOLITAN CHRYSANTHIOS.
III
of »METROPOLITAN CHRYSANTHIOS» of New-I atra near Athens. In the year 1784 he left his place and went to Constantinople and Syria. In Aleppo he joined a company
merchants, who travelled to India. His road takes him to the Euphrates, 1b1@ of English
over the Persian Gulf to Maskat: in Surat he reached the Indian coast. From Bengal he made a trip to Lhasa in the company of some Greek salt merchants, who were allowed to enter Tibet. The journey went along the Brahmaputra, via Tarengas, Ong and Nichtay(?). After having left the Brahmaputra, which in its upper course was called Sampu, our traveller reached a town called Tunsior. Here he was stopped, as Christians, and especially a Christian Metropolitan, were not allowed to visit Lhasa itself. But against every expectation Dalai Lama issued an order that the foreigner should be brought before him, and thus the Metropolitan Chrysanthios reaches Lhasa, where he for 17 days enjoyed the hospitality of the II year old Dalai Lama, and received rich presents in money and clothes from him.1
Our traveller exaggerates bravely in his description of Tibet. So for instance he estimates the population of Lhasa to I z million and calculates the army of the country, cavalry and infantry to be 300.000 men with 2000 elephants. In spite of a : the friendly reception he was not allowed to fullfil his wish and continue to China, ;; and all he can do is to return to India. One of the ministers accompanied him the whole way to Patna. There he decided to go to Russia (1792-1795) and passed the following places on his way: Benares, Agra, Delhi, Kashmir, Kandahar, Ghasni, Kabul, Balkh, Bokhara, Khiva, where he was retained for a year. Thence he passed Mangyshlak, crossed the Caspian and reached Astrakhan. Ordered to St. Petersburg, in 1796, he delivered to Count Suboff, the chief of the troops which were sent against Persia, a manuscript in which he gave a detailed description of those Asiatic
k'.
countries he had visited. Only in 1861 this manuscript was published, together with a short narrative of the journey, by W. W. GRIGORIEFF.2
In 1805 the Metropolitan delivered to Count Rumiantseff, the minister of commerce, a second manuscript, containing an answer to the question »Whether one could travel easily and unmolested from Russia to Tibet». It is in this second manuscript that he mentions his journey to Tibet. In the first one he had omitted it as he believed it could not be of any interest to Russia, being so far and out of the way.3
I This is impossible as the eighth Dalai Lama, bLo-bzang 'Jam-dpal rgya-mts'o was born 1758 or 1759 and died in 1805, and therefore was 33 or 34 years old at the time of the Metropolitan's visit. The Tashi Lama , on the other hand, whose name was bs Tan-pai nyi-ma, was born in 1781
and was I 1 years old in 1792, at the visit of the Metropolitan. Samuel Turner, Warren Hasting's Embassador, saw him in 1783, in the monastery gTer-pa-gling. It therefore, seems doubtful whether the
Metropolitan ever reached Lhasa. Cf. G. Schulemann: Die Geschichte der Dalailamas. Heidelberg 1911, p. 205.
2 Sapiska : Khrisan fa Mitropolita Novopatrasskago, o stranakh Srednei Asij, posjeshtshonnikh inn v 1790 godakh. Isdal s svedeniem i objasnenijami W. W. Grigorieff. Moskva 1861.
3 It was published in 1884 by D. KOBEKO.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright (C) 2003-2019
National Institute of Informatics（国立情報学研究所）
and
The Toyo Bunko（東洋文庫）. All Rights Reserved.
本ウェブサイトに掲載するデジタル文化資源の無断転載は固くお断りいたします。