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The High Road to China.(Brief article)(Book review)
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In 1774, George Bogle, a young envoy for the East India Company, departed from Calcutta for Tibet, a country that no Briton had yet entered. Eager to learn local customs, Bogle grew long whiskers, "drank a Deluge of Tea with Salt and Butter," and befriended the Panchen Lama, the incarnation of the Buddha of Boundless Light, whom he described ...
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