An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet : Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet / Samuel Turner, Illustrated by Samuel Davis, Assisted by Robert Saunders.
In 1783, at the opportunity presented by a new Panchen (or Teshoo) Lama, Bengal governor-general Warren Hastings sent a deputation to Tibet and Bhutan in the hope of promoting British-Indian trade across the Himalayas. Samuel Turner (1759-1802), an army officer in the East India Company, was appoint...
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