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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NEPALESE INTRUSION 21
was " a good deal affected," that he could not help being
concerned that the Regent should suspect him of coming
into his country to raise disturbances ; that God was his
witness that he wished the Regent well, and wished the
Lama well, and the country well, and that a suspicion of
treachery and falsehood he could not bear. The Tashi
Lami tried to calm him, and eventually dictated a letter
in Tibetan in Bogle's name to the Lhasa Regent. This
letter contained only one sentence of pure business. It
simply said : I request, in the name of the Governor, my
master, that you will allow merchants to trade between
this country and Bengal." Not a very aggressive request
to make or a very great favour to ask, especially as the
Tibetans had begun their intercourse by asking a favour
from us. But it was not for a century and a quarter, and
not till we had carried our arms to Lhasa itself, that that
simple request was answered, although all the time the
people and traders of Tibet were only too willing to
trade with us.
Why Bogle did not himself go to Lhasa, as he was
empowered to do by his instructions, seems strange. The
Tashi Lama said that he himself would have been quite
willing, but that the Lhasa Regent was very averse, and
he dissuaded Bogle, saying that the Regent's heart was
small and suspicious, and he could not promise that he
would be able to procure the Regent's consent.
And now the feeling of suspicion was to be increased
by an unfortunate occurrence. The Gurkha Raja of
Nepal wrote to both the Tashi Lama and the Lhasa
Regent, announcing that he had subdued certain districts.
He said he did not wish to quarrel with Tibet, but if they
had a mind for war he let them know he was well prepared,
and he would desire them to remember he was a Rajput.
He wished to establish factories at places upon the
Tibetan border, where the merchants of Tibet might pur-
chase the commodities of his country and of Bengal, and
he desired the concurrence of the 'Tibetans. He also
further desired the Tibetans " to have no connection with
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