Four Nights to Catalogue Tibet's Doomed Libraries
British Imperial Era

Four Nights to Catalogue Tibet's Doomed Libraries

A group of Tibetan monks had been preserving Sanskrit manuscripts for centuries, until a British official decided he needed to know exactly what was inside the libraries he was about to destroy.

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TibetBritish EmpireCentral AsiaCultural ErasureColonialismHimalaya19th20th CenturyBuddhismArchival HistoryImperial Expansion

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