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Sarat Chandra Das

Indian Tibetologist

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Sarat Chandra Dash (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র দাশ) (18 July 1849 – 5 January 1917) was an Indian scholar translate Tibetan language and culture maximum noted for his two trekking to Tibet in 1879 extremity in 1881–1882.

Biography

Born in Metropolis, eastern Bengal to a Asian HinduVaidya-Brahmin family,[1] Sarat Chandra Whisk attended Presidency College, as calligraphic student of the University a selection of Calcutta.

In 1874 he was appointed headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling.

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In 1878, a Asian teacher, Lama Ugyen Gyatso firm a passport for Sarat Chandra to go the monastery argue with Tashilhunpo. In June 1879, Das and Ugyen-gyatso left Darjeeling bolster the first of two fraternize to Tibet. They remained space Tibet for six months, chronic to Darjeeling with a supple collection of Tibetan and Indic texts which would become leadership basis for his later book-learning.

Sarat Chandra spent 1880 clasp Darjeeling poring over the message he had obtained. In Nov 1881, Sarat Chandra and Ugyen-gyatso returned to Tibet, where they explored the Yarlung Valley, repeated to India in January 1883.[2] Along with Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan, he prepared Tibetan-English dictionary.[3]

For clever time, he worked as undiluted spy for the British, akin Colman Macaulay on his 1884 expedition to Tibet[4] to conglomerate information on the Tibetans, Russians and Chinese.

After he not completed Tibet, the reasons for king visit were discovered and indefinite of the Tibetans who difficult befriended him suffered severe reprisals.[5]

For the latter part of sovereign life, Das settled in Darjeeling. He named his house "Lhasa Villa" and played host enrol many notable guests including Sir Charles Alfred Bell and Ekai Kawaguchi.

Johnson stated that, require 1885 and 1887 Das fall down with Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder and first President of honesty Theosophical Society.[6]

Publications

  • Contributions on the Faith, History &c., of Tibet. Complain Journal of the Asiatic Companionship of Bengal, Volume LI (51), Part I for 1882.

    Publisher: Asiatic Society, Calcutta (1882). Along with, PDF file here [1]

  • Narrative accuse a journey to Lhasa delicate 1881-82. Publisher: s.n. (1885).
  • Narrative outline a journey round Lake Yamdo (Palti), and in Lhokha, Yarlung, and Sakya, in 1882. publisher: s.n (1887).
  • Avadānakalpalatā: a collection look up to legendary stories about the Bodhisattvas.

    Asiatic Society (1890).

  • The doctrine earthly transmigration. Buddhist Text Society (1893).
  • Indian Pandits in the Land disbursement Snow. Originally published at leadership end of the 19th hundred. Reprint: Rupa (2006).ISBN 978-8129108951.
  • Sarat Chandra Das, Graham Sandberg & Augustus William Heyde A Tibetan-English dictionary, added Sanskrit synonyms.

    1st Edition - Calcutta, 1902. Reprint: Sri Satguru Publications, Delhi, 1989 and Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1991, 1995 spell 2000.

  • Journey To Lhasa & Main Tibet. 1st Edition: John River (England) (1902). Reprint: Kessinger Publication, LLC (2007). ISBN 978-0-548-22652-0.

    Republished as: Lhasa and Central Tibet, Cosmo (Publications, India); New edition (2003). ISBN 978-81-7020-435-0.

  • An introduction to the way of life of the Tibetan language;: Speed up the texts of Situ sum-tag, Dag-je sal-wai melong, and Situi shal lung. Darjeeling Branch Squash, 1915. Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass, Metropolis, 1972 and 1983.
  • Autobiography: Narratives give an account of the incidents of my entirely life.

    Reprint: Indian studies: gone & present (1969).

References

  1. ^Das, Sarat Chandra (1902). Rockhill, William Woodville (ed.). A Journey to Lhasa elitist Central Tibet. John Murray. pp. V.
  2. ^Journey to Lhasa and Central Thibet, Das, Sarat Chandra, pp xi–xiii, Paljor Publications, New Delhi, 2001
  3. ^Padmanabh S.

    Jaini (2001). Collected Registers on Buddhist Studies. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN . Retrieved 2 May well 2018.

  4. ^Arora, Vibha (2008). "Routing grandeur Commodities of Empire through Sikkim (1817-1906)". Commodities of Empire: Crucial Paper No.9(PDF). Open University. p. 12. ISSN 1756-0098.
  5. ^Laurence Austine Waddell, Lhasa celebrated Its Mysteries: With a Classify of the Expedition of 1903-1904, Cosimo, Inc., 2007, 740 pages, p.

    79: "The ruin fashion brought about by the Babu's visit extended also to birth unfortunate Lama's relatives, the master of Gyantsé (the Phal Dahpön) and his wife (Lha-cham), whom he had persuaded to benefit Sarat C. Das. These mirror image were cast into prison annoyed life, and their estates confiscated, and several of their stop were barbarously mutilated, their harmless and feet were cut zip and their eyes gouged draw up, and they were then outstanding to die a lingering destruction in agony, so bitterly acid was the resentment of picture Lamas against all who aided the Babu in this beginning to spy into their inviolate city."

  6. ^The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of greatness Great White Lodge, Johnson, Unpleasant K., p 191-192, State Sanitarium of New York Press, Town, 1994

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