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Jesuit on the roof of the world : Ippolito Desideri's mission to eighteenth-century Tibet / Trent Pomplun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pomplun, Trent.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Desideri, Ippolito, 1684-1733.
- Desideri, Ippolito.
- Jesuits--Italy--Biography.
- Jesuits.
- Missionaries--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- Missionaries--Italy--Biography.
- Missions--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Missions.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Church history.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri traveled in Tibet from 1715-1721. Describing his spiritual warfare against the Tibetan 'pope', the missionary offers a unique glimpse into the theological problem of the salvation of non-Christians in early modern theology. Pomplun follows his journey.
- Contents:
- Jesuit phantasia
- From Rome to Lhasa
- Tibetan religion in theological perspective
- The Z©ơnghar invasion
- The fight with the friars
- Compositio loci: Tibet.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780199703340
- 0199703345
- 9780195377866
- 0195377869
- OCLC:
- 922972615
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31160 hdl
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