"More than the promised land"
Subtitle: letters and relations from Tibet by the Jesuit missionary António de Andrade (1580-1634)
By: translated and introduced by Michael J. Sweet ; edited by Leonard Zwilling
Contributors: Sweet, Michael J. (Michael Jay), 1945- translator, writer of supplementary textual content; Zwilling, Leonard, editor
Series: Sources for the history of Jesuit missions -- no. 4; Sources for the history of Jesuit missions -- no. 4.
Publisher: Institute of Jesuit Sources, Boston College
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Chestnut Hill, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781947617018
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Biography; Early works to 1800; Missions; Sources; History; Jesuits
Description: The first complete translation of the letters and relations of the Portuguese Jesuit António de Andrade concerning Tibet, along with an edition of two previously unpublished letters and a historical introduction, will serve as a valuable primary source on the mission Andrade founded in the western Tibetan kingdom of Guge. His vivid observations of the dangerous journey over the Himalayas and his impressions of Tibetan society and religion have informed the Western representation of Tibet and will be of interest to scholars and students of the Jesuit missions in Asia, pre-modern Tibetan history, and the first contacts between Western Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.