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
RETURN TO INDIA 39
remained on at Lhasa for several months, paying many
visits to the Grand Lama, and eventually orders came
from Peking for him to return the way he carne. He
left Lhasa on April 19, and reached Kuch Behar on
June 10, 1812.
Manning's own object was A moral view of China, its
manners, the degree of happiness the people enjoy, their
sentiments and opinions so far as they influence life, their
literature, their history, the causes of their stability and
vast population, their minor arts and contrivances ; what
there might be in China to serve as a model for imitation,
and what to serve as a beacon to avoid." Having been
foiled in this his main object, he does not appear to
have regarded the subsidiary circumstance that he had
reached Lhasa as of particular interest. And he seems
to have been so disgusted with the Government's refusal
to support him, that when he returned to Calcutta he
would give no one any particulars of his journey. The
account which Markham published sixty years later was
only discovered long after his death.
It is a meagre record of so important a journey, yet
it exemplifies one or two points which are worthy of
note. It showed that an individual Englishman, with
delicacy of touch and with a real sympathetic feeling
towards those among whom he was travelling, could find
his way even into the very presence of the Dalai Lama in
the Potala itself. It showed, too, that he could get on
perfectly well with the Chinese personally. But it showed
likewise that at the back of the minds of both the
Tibetans and Chinese was a strong dread of the British
power, which made them fear to allow a single English-
man to remain in Tibet or even pass through the. country.
Yet Manning confirmed what Bogle and Turner had
also noticed — that, while the Tibetans dreaded the
Chinese, they disliked them intensely. He says that the
Chinese were very disrespectful to the Tibetans. Only
bad-charactered Chinamen were sent to Tibet, and he
could not help thinking that the 'Tibetans would view
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