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CHAPTER I - MISSION TO TIBET

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2011

George Bogle  and
Thomas Manning
Edited by
Clements R. Markham
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LETTER FROM THE TESHU LAMA TO WARREN HASTINGS.

The affairs of this quarter in every respect flourish. I am night and day employed in prayers for the increase of your happiness and prosperity. Having been informed by travellers from your quarter of your exalted fame and reputation, my heart, like the blossom of spring, abounds with gaiety, gladness, and joy; praise that the star of your fortune is in its ascension; praise that happiness and ease are the surrounding attendants of myself and family. Neither to molest nor persecute is my aim; it is even the characteristic of my sect to deprive ourselves of the necessary refreshment of sleep, should an injury be done to a single individual. But in justice and humanity I am informed you far surpass us. May you ever adorn the seat of justice and power, that mankind may, under the shadow of your bosom, enjoy the blessings of happiness and ease. By your favour, I am the Rajah and Lama of this country, and rule over numbers of subjects, a particular with which you have no doubt been made acquainted by travellers from these parts. I have been repeatedly informed that you have been engaged in hostilities against the Deb Judhur, to which, it is said, the Deb's own criminal conduct, in committing ravages and other outrages on your frontiers, has given rise.

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Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet
and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa
 , pp. 1 - 13
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1881

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