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0157 Southern Tibet : vol.7
南チベット : vol.7
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of »Mitropolitan Chrysanthios» of New-Patra near Athens. In the year 1784 he left
his place and went to Constantinople and Syria. In Aleppo he joined a company
of English merchants, who travelled to India. His road takes him to the Euphrates,
over the Persian Gulf to Maskat: in Surat he reached the Indian coast. From Bengal
he made a trip to Lhasa in the company of some Greek salt merchants, who were
allowed to enter Tibet. The journey went along the Brahmaputra, viâ Tarengas,
Ong and Nichtay(?). After having left the Brahmaputra, which in its upper course
was called Sampu, our traveller reached a town called Tunsior. Here he was stopped,
as Christians, and especially a Christian Metropolitan, were not allowed to visit
Lhasa itself. But against every expectation Dalai Lama issued an order that the
foreigner should be brought before him, and thus the Metropolitan Chrysanthios reaches
Lhasa, where he for 17 days enjoyed the hospitality of the 11 year old Dalai Lama,
and received rich presents in money and clothes from him.¹

Our traveller exaggerates bravely in his description of Tibet. So for instance
he estimates the population of Lhasa to 1½ million and calculates the army of the
country, cavalry and infantry to be 300,000 men with 2000 elephants. In spite of
the friendly reception he was not allowed to fullfil his wish and continue to China,
and all he can do is to return to India. One of the ministers accompanied him the
whole way to Patna. There he decided to go to Russia (1792—1795) and passed
the following places on his way: Benares, Agra, Delhi, Kashmir, Kandahar, Ghasni,
Kabul, Balkh, Bokhara, Khiva, where he was retained for a year. Thence he passed
Mangyshlak, crossed the Caspian and reached Astrakhan. Ordered to St. Petersburg,
in 1796, he delivered to Count Suboff, the chief of the troops which were sent
against Persia, a manuscript in which he gave a detailed description of those Asiatic
countries he had visited. Only in 1861 this manuscript was published, together with
a short narrative of the journey, by W. W. Grigorieff.²

In 1805 the Metropolitan delivered to Count Rumiantseff, the minister of commerce,
a second manuscript, containing an answer to the question »Whether one could travel
easily and unmolested from Russia to Tibet». It is in this second manuscript that
he mentions his journey to Tibet. In the first one he had omitted it as he believed
it could not be of any interest to Russia, being so far and out of the way.³