Download or read book To Lhasa and Beyond written by Giuseppe Tucci and published by Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Lhasa and beyond" is a fascinating account of Tibet as it was prior to the upheavals following the Chinese take-over in 1959. The author takes the reader along the roads he followed in 1949 and reveals the people, religion, art, customs and landscape of a country that very few Westerners ever had the opportunity to see. Giuseppe Tucci (1894 - 1984) was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian fascism, and he used idealized portrayals of Asian traditions to support Italian ideological campaigns. Tucci was fluent in several European languages, Sanskrit, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, Chinese and Tibetan and he taught at the University of Rome La Sapienza until his death. He is considered one of the founders of the field of Buddhist Studies.