Monks, spies and a soldier of fortune: the Japanese in Tibet

by Scott Berry

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First edition

London: Athlone, 1995 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 352; map endpapers, a fine copy in the dust jacket. During the first half of the twentieth century, as Tibet opened its doors to the West, the country was visited by a number of Japanese. Two were monks investigating Tibetan Buddhism; two others were more worldly clerics hoping to manipulate Tibetan politics. Of the laymen, two were spies, one was a soldier of fortune and a fourth was the author of a

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