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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
16 BOGLE'S MISSION, 1774
had heard also,"* he said, much of the power of the
Fringies : that the Company was like a great King, and
fond of war and conquest ; and as my business and
that of my people is to pray to God, I was afraid to admit
any Fringies into the country. But I have since learned
that the Fringies are a fair and a just people." To this
Bogle replied that the Governor was, above all things,
desirous of obtaining his friendship and favour, as the
character of the English and their good or bad name
depended greatly upon his judgment. In return the
Lama assured Bogle that his heart was open and well
disposed towards the English, and that he wished to have
a place on the banks of the Ganges to which he might
send his people to pray, and that he intended to write
to Warren Hastings about it. This he did, after Bogle's
return, and a piece of land was given him on the banks of
the Hooghly branch of the Ganges, opposite Calcutta, and
a house and temple were constructed on it by Bogle
for the Lama.
The conversation now turned to the question of trade.
The Tashi Lama said that, owing to the recent wars in
Nepal and Bhutan, trade between Bengal and Tibet was
not flourishing, but that, as for himself, he gave encourage-
ment to merchants, and in Tibet they were free and secure.
He enumerated the different articles which went from
Tibet to Bengal—" gold, musk, cow-tails (yak-tails), and
coarse woollen clothes "—but he said the 'Tibetans were
afraid to go to Bengal on account of the heat. In the
previous year he had sent four people to worship at
Benares, but three had died. In former times great
numbers used to resort to Hindustan. The Lamas had
temples in Benares, Gaya, and several other places ; their
priests used to travel thither to study the sacred books and
the religion of the Hindus, and after remaining there ten,
twenty, or thirty years, return to Tibet and communicate
their knowledge to their countrymen ; but since the Mo-
hammedan conquest of India the inhabitants of Tibet
had had little connection with Bengal or the southern
countries.
Markham, p. 137.
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