Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Frontispiece
- Colophon
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA AND ADDENDA
- Map
- CHAPTER I LHASA THE FORBIDDEN
- CHAPTER II THE GRAND LAMA AND HIS EVOLUTION AS THE PRIEST-GOD OF LHASA
- CHAPTER III HOW THE BRITISH MISSION CAME TO BE SENT
- CHAPTER IV FORWARD! THE PEACEFUL MISSION BECOMES AN ARMED FORCE
- CHAPTER V INVASION OF THE CHUMBI VALLEY ACROSS THE JELEP PASS AND OCCUPATION OF PHARI FORT
- CHAPTER VI ADVANCE TO TUNA ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU, ACROSS THE FORMIDABLE TANG PASS
- CHAPTER VII WINTERING IN TIBET
- CHAPTER VIII ON TO GURU, WITH BATTLE AT THE CRYSTAL SPRINGS
- CHAPTER IX THE TIBETAN ARMY AND ITS LEADERS
- CHAPTER X DASH ON GYANTSÉ, PAST THE LAKES RHAM AND KALA, WITH FIGHT IN THE GORGE OF THE RED IDOL
- CHAPTER XI GYANTSÉ—ITS FORT AND TOWN
- CHAPTER XII TEMPLES, PRIESTS, AND CONVENTS OF GYANTSÉ AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH VISIT TO THE CAVES OF THE ENTOMBED HERMITS
- CHAPTER XIII BESIEGED AT GYANTSÉ
- CHAPTER XIV RELIEF OF GYANTSÉ AND STORMING OF THE JONG
- CHAPTER XV GYANTSÉ TO LHASA, PAST THE YAMDOK SEA, AND ACROSS THE TSANGPO VALLEY
- CHAPTER XVI LHASA, “THE SEAT OF THE GODS”
- CHAPTER XVII TEMPLES AND MONKS IN THE HERMIT CITY: THE LAMAS' HOLY OF HOLIES
- CHAPTER XVIII ORACLES AND SORCERERS
- CHAPTER XIX THE PRIEST-GOD AND HIS PALACE
- CHAPTER XX TEA WITH THE REGENT, RULER OF TIBET
- CHAPTER XXI PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND SIGNING OF THE TREATY
- CHAPTER XXII RAMBLES ROUND LHASA
- CHAPTER XXIII THE RETURN JOURNEY—EXPLORATION OF THE TSANGPO VALLEY, AND SNOW-BOUND AT PHARI
- APPENDICES SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE EXPEDITION AND NOTES TO THE TEXT
- Map
- INDEX
CHAPTER XI - GYANTSÉ—ITS FORT AND TOWN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
- Frontmatter
- Frontispiece
- Colophon
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA AND ADDENDA
- Map
- CHAPTER I LHASA THE FORBIDDEN
- CHAPTER II THE GRAND LAMA AND HIS EVOLUTION AS THE PRIEST-GOD OF LHASA
- CHAPTER III HOW THE BRITISH MISSION CAME TO BE SENT
- CHAPTER IV FORWARD! THE PEACEFUL MISSION BECOMES AN ARMED FORCE
- CHAPTER V INVASION OF THE CHUMBI VALLEY ACROSS THE JELEP PASS AND OCCUPATION OF PHARI FORT
- CHAPTER VI ADVANCE TO TUNA ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU, ACROSS THE FORMIDABLE TANG PASS
- CHAPTER VII WINTERING IN TIBET
- CHAPTER VIII ON TO GURU, WITH BATTLE AT THE CRYSTAL SPRINGS
- CHAPTER IX THE TIBETAN ARMY AND ITS LEADERS
- CHAPTER X DASH ON GYANTSÉ, PAST THE LAKES RHAM AND KALA, WITH FIGHT IN THE GORGE OF THE RED IDOL
- CHAPTER XI GYANTSÉ—ITS FORT AND TOWN
- CHAPTER XII TEMPLES, PRIESTS, AND CONVENTS OF GYANTSÉ AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITH VISIT TO THE CAVES OF THE ENTOMBED HERMITS
- CHAPTER XIII BESIEGED AT GYANTSÉ
- CHAPTER XIV RELIEF OF GYANTSÉ AND STORMING OF THE JONG
- CHAPTER XV GYANTSÉ TO LHASA, PAST THE YAMDOK SEA, AND ACROSS THE TSANGPO VALLEY
- CHAPTER XVI LHASA, “THE SEAT OF THE GODS”
- CHAPTER XVII TEMPLES AND MONKS IN THE HERMIT CITY: THE LAMAS' HOLY OF HOLIES
- CHAPTER XVIII ORACLES AND SORCERERS
- CHAPTER XIX THE PRIEST-GOD AND HIS PALACE
- CHAPTER XX TEA WITH THE REGENT, RULER OF TIBET
- CHAPTER XXI PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND SIGNING OF THE TREATY
- CHAPTER XXII RAMBLES ROUND LHASA
- CHAPTER XXIII THE RETURN JOURNEY—EXPLORATION OF THE TSANGPO VALLEY, AND SNOW-BOUND AT PHARI
- APPENDICES SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE EXPEDITION AND NOTES TO THE TEXT
- Map
- INDEX
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- Lhasa and its MysteriesWith a Record of the Expedition of 1903–1904, pp. 196 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015First published in: 1905