Fictions set in Tibet––whether trivial adventures penned by hack writers or better researched and more artfully written pieces-had no place in Tibetan studies. For many decades, the main task of Tibetan studies has been––and it remains so in a few quarters even today––to divest Tibet of fantasy and make it the subject of professionally competent study. 31–3.) In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so many charlatans made Tibet the backdrop for their pseudo-esoterica and fantastic adventures that such writings were anathema to serious scholars of Tibet. (It was originally published in the Latse Library Newsletter, 3, pp. Here we also present in English and Tibetan as preface the introductory essay “Origins of the ‘Tibet Myth’ in Western Fiction,” by Ramon Prats. This is the OLDER version with 616 entries.
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