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Author Pomplun, Trent.

Title Jesuit on the roof of the world [electronic resource] : Ippolito Desideri's mission to eighteenth-century Tibet / Trent Pomplun.

Imprint Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 302 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.
Contents Jesuit phantasia -- From Rome to Lhasa -- Tibetan religion in theological perspective -- The Zünghar invasion -- The fight with the friars -- Compositio loci: Tibet.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Desideri, Ippolito, 1684-1733.
Jesuits -- Italy -- Biography.
Missionaries -- China -- Tibet -- Biography.
Missionaries -- Italy -- Biography.
Missions -- China -- Tibet.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Church history.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780195377866 (DLC) 2009009570
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