[Tibetan autobiographical texts from the Johan van Manen Collection at Leiden University]
Contributors: Phun-tshogs-luṅ-rtogs, 1882-1926, author; Zhen, Canzhi, 1893- author; Johan van Manen collectie (Leiden, Netherlands)
Published: 2008
Language: tib
Subjects: Biography; Intellectual life; History; Tibetologists
Description: Autobiographical writings of four Tibetan and one Sino-Tibetan scribes, who assisted the Dutch scholar Johan van Manen (1877-1943) in India; these texts were written at the behest of van Manen starting in 1916 and cover life in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet, as well as life among Christian missionaries in Darjeeling and Calcutta, India, etc.
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.

Reproduction of original manuscripts.

Microfilm. Leiden : Stratapreservation, 2008. 4 reels ; 35 mm. Master negative: 2008.

In Tibetan and English.
Table of contents: title: Autobiography of Gegen Phuntsok (813 p.), no. 189, parts a-e, on reels 1-2; title: Autobiography of Trin Chen [a.k.a Ts'an-chih Chen] with drawings (545 p.), no. 191, parts a-b, on reels 2-3; title: Autobiography of Jamyang and Kachen Yeshe, no. 192, parts a-f, on reels 3-4; title: Unidentified, no. 193b, on reel 4.