Thibet

"From Thibet." He pointed across the hills and grinned.

However, due to the inconvenient format and high cost, the attached maps were not the popular source in Europe at the time, which was rather a "pirate" printing under d'Anville's name (but without his permission) in The Hague in 1737, the Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet. Although d'Anville believed the quality of the Hague printing was lower than his original maps, it was not until 1785 that he brought out a high quality and better formatted set of all of the maps (using the original plates) under the same title.

politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise, enrichie des cartes generales et particulieres de ces pays, de la carte generale et des cartes particulieres du Thibet, & de la Coree; & ornee du grand nombre de figures & de vignettes gravies en tailledouce.

(26) No original: "[...] accounts of mysterious trips to Thibet, the African interior, the Arabian desert, the Amazon valley, Alaska, and certain little-known islands of the South Pacific [...]"

Come where the mingaley reigns supreme, Beyond the hope of the Feminist's dream; Where the pranks of the hooligan Suffragette Are quite as unknown as the wilds of Thibet. The sceptre she wields is a winsome smile, Mightier far than 'political bile: ' As sparkling champagne surpasses the Nile, Or the skin of an apple the core!

It is no exaggeration to say that even Thibet, 'the terra incognita of Asia,' is well known in comparison." (5) Perhaps that ignorance explains why in 1896 a "prominent minister" could write quite mistakenly in Methodism's Christian Advocate that there were no Protestant missionaries in Malaysia.

THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES and Canadian Council of Churches urge their member denominations to emphasize "Refugee Year" and "recognize by our contributions how much more fortunate we are than the harassed parents of families flooding into India from Thibet [Tibet] or than the pathetic children living on the sidewalks of Hong Kong."

His Majesty's Government, while they have formally recognized the suzerain rights of China in Thibet [Tibet], have never recognized, and are not prepared to recognize, the right of China to intervene actively in the internal administration of Thibet [Tibet], which should remain, as contemplated by the treaties, in the hands of the Thibetan [Tibetan] authorities.

Although Tibet came to exercise an autonomy amounting to independence, the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty of 1904, Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1906, and Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 recognized the "suzerainty of China over Thibet." These treaties were effectively voided with the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty and the rule of rival warlords in China proper.

"if the same book contains a statement of the laws of Thibet, where

(7) Tod alternates observations on the striking colours of the geological strata of the surrounding mountains--a "rose tint" on one side, and a "greyish granite" on the other, with "white quartz about their summits"--with a description of the visible structures around the lake: Pushkar is the most sacred lake in India: that of Mansurwar [Mansarovar] in Thibet may alone compete with it in this respect.

the gem in the lotus,' goes murmuring, like the cooing of many doves, across the vast surface of Thibet." In so minimizing liturgical differences, Higginson committed most of liberalism's universalizing sins, but he also imagined a cosmopolitan piety' in which religious identities were open, fluxional, and sympathetic rather than closed, fixed, and proselytizing.