Embassy of Samuel Turner
in Bhutan and Tibet
Collection: Fleuve Jaune
Author(s): Samuel Turner
ISBN: 2-86805-106-5
Format: 13 x 23 cm, 144 pages
Preface by Françoise Pommaret
In 1786, in order to provide northern India with open trade routes, the East India Company sent the young Cape Turner on an embassy to Bhutan and Tibet, with the sole mission of assuring the entourage of the very young Panchen Lama of the Company's good intentions...
Samuel Turner makes quasi-ethnographic observations that make this embassy a valuable record of the customs, mores and institutions of Bhutan and Tibet in the late eighteenth century.
Following the evening conference of Françoise Pommaret, we share this publication from 2013.