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
RESULTS OF MISSION 25
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Raja's letter showed, there are few Asiatic rulers who, if
they have the power to subdue a weaker neighbour, will not
as a perfectly natural course proceed to bring that neighbour
under subjection. This is looked upon by most Asiatics
as a quite normal and inevitable proceeding. Naturally,
therefore, the Tibetans would assume that it would only
be a matter of time before the English Governor of Bengal
would attack 'Tibet. He had the power to subdue the
country ; he would therefore subdue it. In the first
instance he would, of course, send up an agent to spy out
the land, to see what it was worth, and to find out the best
way into it ; and such an agent doubtless Bogle was, in their
opinion. It was inevitable, therefore, that Bogle should
be viewed with suspicion, and that the 'Tibetans should not,
at the first jump off, throw their country freely open to
trade. How much wiser, in their opinion, would be the
views of some shrewd old counsellor who said : Keep the
English at a distance ; don't let one into our country ; stay
behind our mountain barrier and have nothing whatever
to do with anyone beyond it. This is the ' ancient custom.'
Do not let us depart from it. Let us be civil to this Bogle
now he is here, lest we offend his powerful master, but
for God's sake let us get rid of him as soon as we can, and
put every polite difficulty we know of in the way of any
other Englishman coming amongst us."
We can imagine how sound such an opinion would
seem to the generality of the old greybeard's hearers, and
how difficult it would be for anyone—even the Tashi
Lama—to contend against it. And with such a feeling in
existence Bogle could not do more than produce a
favourable personal impression, and put in an argument or
two, whenever he had the opportunity, to show that there
were also some advantages in having relationship with
the English, in the hopes that these arguments might
gradually sink into the Tibetan mind, and when the
opportunity should arise, bring forth fruit. And this much
he did most effectively in carrying out the Governor's
policy.
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