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
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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
18 BOGLE'S MISSION, 1774
of Kuch Behar, took possession of his territories, and
carried their arms to the borders of Bengal. The deputies
could judge for themselves whether the Company were
not in the right in opposing them. In the course of the
war some of the Bhutan territory was taken from them,
but was immediately restored at the request of the Tashi
Lama, and so far from desiring conquest, the boundaries
of Bengal remained the same as formerly.
The Lhasa deputies said the Lama had written to
Lhasa about trading, but that the Tibetans were afraid of
the heat, and proceeded, therefore, only as far as Phari,
where the Bhutanese brought the commodities of Bengal
and exchanged them for those of Tibet. This was the
ancient custom, and would certainly be observed.
Bogle stated that besides this there was formerly a
very extensive trade carried on between Tibet and Bengal ;
Warren Hastings was desirous of removing existing
obstacles, and had sent him to Tibet to represent the
matter to the Tashi Lama, and he trusted that the Lhasa
authorities would agree to so reasonable a proposal. They
answered that Gesub Rimpoche (the Regent at Lhasa)
would do everything in his power, but that he and all the
country were subject to the Emperor of China.
This," says Bogle, is a stumbling-block which crosses
me in all my paths." And in the paths of how many
negotiators since has it not stood as a stumbling-block !
The Tibetans are ready to do anything, but they can do
nothing without the permission of the Chinese. The
Chinese would freely open the whole of 'Tibet, but the
Tibetans themselves are so terribly seclusive. So the
same old story goes on year after year, till centuries are
beginning to roll by, and the story is still unfinished. When
in the Audience Hall of the Dalai Lama's Palace at Lhasa
itself I had obtained the seals of the Dalai Lama, of the
Council, of the National Assembly, and of the three great
monasteries, to an agreement, and had done all this in the
presence of the Chinese Resident, I thought we had at
last laid that fiction low for ever. But it seems to be
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