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Title: Gifts at Wutai Shan: Rockhill and the Thirteenth Dalai Lama
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Susan Meinheit
One Sentence Summary: A discussion of the 1908 meeting at Wutai shan between the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and William Woodville Rockhill as reflected in three special items in the Library of Congress.

Description: Creator's Description: This article discusses the 1908 meeting at Wutai shan between the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and William Woodville Rockhill as reflected in three special items in the Library of Congress. The Library’s earliest Tibetan books came from Rockhill between 1899-1901 and included xylographs and manuscripts acquired in Tibet and Mongolia between 1888-1892. Additional volumes were given to the Library by Mrs. Rockhill in 1942. Included in that donation were two gifts which Rockhill had received from the Thirteenth Dalai Lama at Wutai shan: a xylograph of the Sūtra of the Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Verses and a tangka (thang ka) of Jé Tsongkhapa (rje tsong kha pa). This historic meeting is described in a letter written by Rockhill to President Theodore Roosevelt, also kept at the Library. These three items are examined in the context of the historical and cultural setting from which they originated. (2011-12-31)

Publisher: Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Normalized publisher place: Charlottesville, VA
Publisher country: United States
Publisher URL: http://www.thlib.org/
Published Date: 2011
URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#!jiats=/issue06/meinheit/
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- Journals Focused on Regions -- Tibet -- JIATS -- Issue 6 (December 2011)
Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- THL-Hosted Online Journals -- JIATS -- Issue 6 (December 2011)
Cultural Coverage: China;Tibet;Mongolia;U.S.A.
Language: English
Source URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/
Source: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
Source Editor: David Germano
Source Type: Journal
Source Number: 6
ISBN/ISSN: 1550-6363

Means of availability: Online

Access rights: Public domain
Format: Online resource
Media type: Text
Resource Type: Article
Digital Encoding: xml
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Date Of Record Creation: 2011-10-06 12:03:44
Date Record Checked: 2011-10-06
Date Last Modified: 2012-01-31 15:01:05
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