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Sarat Chandra Das

Indian Tibetologist

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Sarat Chandra Dash (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র দাশ) (18 July 1849 – 5 January 1917) was an Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture most noted for his two journeys to Tibet in 1879 and in 1881–1882.

Biography

Born in Chittagong, eastern Bengal to a Bengali HinduVaidya-Brahmin family,^[1] Sarat Chandra Dash attended Presidency College, as a student of the University of Calcutta.

In 1874 he was appointed headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling.

Narrative of a Journey to Lhasa in by Sarat Chandra Das (English) Paperb ; ISBN ; Type.

This dissertation suggests that holistic analyses of Inner Asian Buddhist mediations of modernist trends in the late-and post-imperium could contribute to a.

In , the brilliant civil engineer Sarat Chandra Das was recruited by the British as a spy in Darjeeling.

As early as Sarat Chandra Das wrote in his book Narrative of a journey to Lhasa that the dog was prized as a most useful animal by all classes in Tibet.

The Back Award, also referred to as the Back Grant, was first given by the Royal Geographical Society in for applied or scientific geographical studies.

In 1878, a Tibetan teacher, Lama Ugyen Gyatso arranged a passport for Sarat Chandra to go the monastery at Tashilhunpo. In June 1879, Das and Ugyen-gyatso left Darjeeling for the first of two journeys to Tibet. They remained in Tibet for six months, returning to Darjeeling with a large collection of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts which would become the basis for his later scholarship.

Sarat Chandra spent 1880 in Darjeeling poring over the in