rin chen lha mo (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Sehr gut. Paperback, viii, 228 pages, frontispiece and 28 illustrations on plates, very good condition. The author was married to Louis King (1886 - 1949), the former British consul at Tatsienlu (1913-1915 and 1919-1922). King wrote the historical introduction and put the book in writing. As explained in the preface, the author did not speak English and King not much Tibetan, they conversed in Chinese. Short chapters on the culture and the life in Kham /Eastern Tibet. 1926 saw another book published based on the oral history as told by a Tibetan, G.A. Combe`s "A Tibetan on Tibet" - quite a coincidence and maybe an explanation for the scarcity of this book. King was forced to retire from consular service because of his marriage. The couple returned to England, where Rinchen Lhamo died in 1929, aged only 28 of tubercolosis (compare Tim Chamberlain, Edge of Empires, British Museum Magazine, Spring/Summer 2010). A lovely, remarkable book, one wonders whether Fritz Mühlenweg has seen it, who might have taken inspriation in some of its sentences. "Why should not I myself write a book ? Almost everybody who came to my country wrote a book or an article about it somewhere. To write a book was not in itself difficult, though it might be another thing to get anybody to read it. [.] And I had got used to your ways. [.] to your evening gowns, which make a human being look like a stork; and, after a toss or two, to your high--heeled shoes. [.]. You are rightly proud of your material culture, but you must not think peoples without it are necessarily uncivilized. Civilization and material culture are not one and the same. [.]. It is a question of spiritual outlook." Even this reprint is hard to find, the 1926 original is rare. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. AuthorsRin-chen Lha-mo King ("Mrs. Louis King."), Louis Magrath King Contributor Louis Magrath King. Name of the previous owner. Illustrations complete. Publication of 228 pages. There is black lettering on the spine and a decoration on the front cover. Frontispiece. The boards are a touch edge worn. There is foxing around the block and on the early and last few pages, little within the body of the book. There are pencil markings and annotations within the body of the book, the text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 11-228; frontispiece and 28 illustrations on 15 plates; original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; front free endpaper excised, else near fine. "This book is the first English one which was published by a woman of Tibet. The authoress had been born at the Kham district in Tibet, and since she was married to Louis King, a British Consul at Tatsienlu. All of twenty chapters deal with Tibetan life and religion" (Yakushi). Yakushi R-236.