Shrines of a thousand Buddhas
Subtitle: exploring for Tibet's hidden art
By: by Dr. Guiseppe Tucci in collaboration with Capt. E. Ghersi.
Contributors: Ghersi, Eugenio, 1901- joint author.; Johnstone, Mary Anderson, tr.
Publisher: R. M. McBride & company
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Buddhism; Monasteries -- China -- Tibet; Tibet (China) -- Description and travel; Tibet (China) -- Religion
Notes: "First edition."
Translated by Mary A. Johnstone. cf. the authors' Secret of Tibet. London and Glasgow, 1935.
"An English edition of this book has been published in London under the title 'Secrets of Tibet'."
"Originally written ... in diary form as the joint work of Messrs. Tucci and Ghersi. Both of the authors are referred to in the third person ... The American edition has been given a more conventional book form, and ... has been converted into the first person with ... [Signor Tucci] as the narrator."--Note to the American edition.
Translation of Cronaca della missione scientifica Tucci nel Tibet occidentale (1933)