Travels in Tibet, Volume 3

A Japanese Buddhist traveler reaches Tibet’s great monasteries and the capital of Lhasa while guarding the secret of his identity.

Kawaguchi Ekai enters Sera University, describes its vigorous debates and striking inequalities, and acquires an unexpected reputation as a physician. Patients and powerful patrons bring him into new circles, including an audience with the Dalai Lama.

This third supplied volume preserves the complete account, poems, and surviving illustration captions, with brief notes on historical names, the narrator’s claims, and textual problems.