Tibet

Lhasa, the Potala and the Dalai Lama appear in these maps and prints of Tibet, a long record of European attempts to picture...

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Lhasa, the Potala and the Dalai Lama appear in these maps and prints of Tibet, a long record of European attempts to picture the high plateau. The material reaches from seventeenth-century work by Alain Manesson Mallet to later maps and illustrated accounts of Lhasa, Shigatse and the Himalayan borderlands, with the maps setting the country's towns and routes within wider Asian coverage. The prints show religious ceremonies, monasteries and Tibetan people, and Mallet's images and later engravings associated with Jakob van der Schley belong to a long European tradition of depicting Tibetan Buddhism.

Lhasa, the Potala and the Dalai Lama appear in these maps and prints of Tibet, a long record of European attempts to picture the high plateau. The material reaches from seventeenth-century work by Alain Manesson Mallet to later maps and illustrated accounts of Lhasa, Shigatse and the Himalayan borderlands, with the maps setting the country's towns and routes within wider Asian coverage. The prints show religious ceremonies, monasteries and Tibetan people, and Mallet's images and later engravings associated with Jakob van der Schley belong to a long European tradition of depicting Tibetan Buddhism.

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