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0293 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 / 293 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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tion of government and blood with the central and
western peoples, thus putting into the veins of the
modern Tibetan strains which run from widely sep-
arated sources, and producing a type marked by
special characteristics. It cannot be supposed,
however, that the immigration from the south was
numerous or that it came from the splendid Hindu
civilisation which lay south and west of Nepal, and
which was highly developed long before even the
legendary beginning of the southern dynasties (*circa*
300 B.C.). For even these prejudiced compilers of
the pro-Indian stories declare that knowledge of
arithmetic was imported from China about the year
600 A.D., and, though the art of writing is said to
have come from India, it is evident that it came but
as a part of the Buddhistic mission work and was
not known until the year 632 A.D. The Hindu
civilisation would have furnished both these accom-
plishments from the beginning of any colonisation
traceable to such a source.
Nothing could better illustrate the seclusion of
this people than this extraordinarily late date for the
introduction of the three R's. It suggests that the
Fanni movement was, indeed, that of a people on
the rim of Chinese civilisation and that the mythical
Indian kings of the lamas' chronicles were but rude
mountain chiefs from Bhutan or Nepal. Turkestan,
desert- and mountain-bound as it is, had its letters
eight hundred years earlier than this secluded land
— a Bastile built by demons, where a nation might
be forgotten.¹