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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

Trespassers on the Roof of the World

The Race for Lhasa

by Peter Hopkirk

A history of the Western travellers, spies and missionaries who tried to reach Lhasa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes an account of David-Néel's journey of 1924.

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