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File Format | PDF
File Size | 3.80 MB
Pages | 106
Language | English
Category | Buddhism
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Description: GC’s most famous work is probably his White Annals, an unfinished history of Tibet that for once relied more on documented evidences culled from archival chambers than on half-myths and half-truths of the Tibetan Buddhist version that all but blurred the real picture of the country’s past. As Hugh Richardson, British India’s political officer during the 14 th Dalai Lama’s time, notes, the book “was the direct result of his discovery during travels abroad that Western scholars possessed evidence about the early history of Tibet which was unknown to his contemporaries.
GC’s White Annals was, in that sense, a more accomplished history book than the later History of Tibet by Shakabpa, which in its predictable discourse, in the rigidity of its worldview, differed little from biographies of earlier important lamas. And it formed the impetus for the modern sensibility which contemporary exile scholars like Dawa Norbu, Tsering Shakya and Jamyang Norbu employ in reconstructing our past, in defining our present. So much so that in GC’s use of Tibetan manuscripts salvaged from Dunhuang caves in China some twenty years earlier, which described the might of Tibet’s imperial dynasties, one can see the seeds for the excellent doctorate thesis Dawa Norbu wrote and which he reproduced toward the end of his book Tibet.
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Buddhism: The White Annals
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