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India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
インドとチベット : vol.1 |
INTERCOURSE WITH TIBET 3
properly realized. Still less have they appreciated that
this contact between the countries means intercourse of
some kind between the peoples inhabiting them, even
though it has to be over a snowy range. The Tibetans
drew their religion from India. From time immemorial
they have been accustomed to visit the sacred shrines of
India. Tibetan traders have come down to Bengal,
Kashmiri and Indian traders have gone to Tibet. Tibetan
shepherds have brought their flocks to the pastures on the
Indian side of the range in some parts. In other parts
the shepherds from the Indian side have taken their sheep
and goats to the plateaux of 'Tibet. Sometimes the
Tibetans or their vassals have raided to valleys and plains
of India, sometimes Indian feudatories have raided into
Tibet. At other times, again, the intercourse has been of
a more pacific kind, and intermarriages between the
bordering peoples and interchanges of presents have taken
place. In a multitude of ways there has ever been inter-
course between '.Tibet and India. Tibet has never been
really isolated. And, as I shall in due course show, the
Mission to Lhasa of 1904,. was merely the culmination of a
long series of efforts to regularize and humanize that inter-
course, and put the relationship which must necessarily
subsist between India and Tibet upon a business-like and
permanently satisfactory footing.
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