Some of the Tibetan Lamas
(Irish Independent, Sept. 16 1925, p. 3)
Dublin (Ireland) -- Newspapers
Buddhist priests
Lamas
The 1924 Mallory / Irvine expedition to Everest was largely financed by John Noel’s silent film Epic of Everest. Screenings were preceded by musical and dance performances from six “dancing lamas” (in fact one lama and five monks) who had been smuggled out of Tibet for the purpose, causing a major diplomatic rift between Britain and Tibet and helping opponents of the 13th Dalai Lama’s modernisation plans. Here they are shown on the roof of Independent House in Abbey St in September 1925.
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China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire
(entrance to the Temple)
China--Description and travel
Buddhism and art
Temples--China
China --Pictorial works
China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire.
Allom’s very popular illustrated travel books are a late reflection of the earlier tradition of travel writing but also demonstrate its increasing obsolescence. By the 1840s the western colonial presence in Asia meant that there was no longer any need to rely on a handful of primary sources for knowledge of most Asian countries, with the partial exception of Japan until the Meiji period (1868 – 1912) and Tibet before the Younghusband invasion of 1903-4. Highlighting this book’s transitional nature, it is uncertain whether Allom visited China himself or (like Picart), drew on the texts and images of those who had.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872
NUI Maynooth Library
1843
Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877
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China
China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire
(Great Temple interior)
China--Description and travel
Buddhism and art
Temples--China
China --Pictorial works
China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire.
Allom’s very popular illustrated travel books are a late reflection of the earlier tradition of travel writing but also demonstrate its increasing obsolescence. By the 1840s the western colonial presence in Asia meant that there was no longer any need to rely on a handful of primary sources for knowledge of most Asian countries, with the partial exception of Japan until the Meiji period (1868 – 1912) and Tibet before the Younghusband invasion of 1903-4. Highlighting this book’s transitional nature, it is uncertain whether Allom visited China himself or (like Picart), drew on the texts and images of those who had.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872
NUI Maynooth Library
1843
Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877
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China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire
(Temple of Buddha)
China--Description and travel
Buddhism and art
Temples--China
China --Pictorial works
China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire.
Allom’s very popular illustrated travel books are a late reflection of the earlier tradition of travel writing but also demonstrate its increasing obsolescence. By the 1840s the western colonial presence in Asia meant that there was no longer any need to rely on a handful of primary sources for knowledge of most Asian countries, with the partial exception of Japan until the Meiji period (1868 – 1912) and Tibet before the Younghusband invasion of 1903-4. Highlighting this book’s transitional nature, it is uncertain whether Allom visited China himself or (like Picart), drew on the texts and images of those who had.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872
NUI Maynooth Library
1843
Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877
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China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire
(title page)
China--Description and travel
Buddhism and art
Temples--China
China --Pictorial works
China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire.
Allom’s very popular illustrated travel books are a late reflection of the earlier tradition of travel writing but also demonstrate its increasing obsolescence. By the 1840s the western colonial presence in Asia meant that there was no longer any need to rely on a handful of primary sources for knowledge of most Asian countries, with the partial exception of Japan until the Meiji period (1868 – 1912) and Tibet before the Younghusband invasion of 1903-4. Highlighting this book’s transitional nature, it is uncertain whether Allom visited China himself or (like Picart), drew on the texts and images of those who had.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872
NUI Maynooth Library
1843
Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877
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The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (Title page)
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Hearn, Lafcadio, -- 1850-1904
Buddhism
Elizabeth Bisland, The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (London / Boston 1911 [first ed. 1906]). Brought up in Dublin, Hearn (1850 – 1904) became a freethinker (atheist) and Buddhist sympathiser in America as well as crossing “race lines” by marrying a black woman. In Japan, he became a leading interpreter of the culture of “old Japan”, attempted to marry Buddhist and western philosophy and was given a Buddhist funeral. Bisland’s collection may have been kept on restricted access in Maynooth because of his controversial marriages to non-white women rather than because of his religious views; in Bisland’s 1911 collection of his Japanese Letters she had to defend him against racist attacks linked mostly to his
black and creole connections in the US.
Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929
London : Constable & Co.
Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
1911
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La vie de Saint François Xavier de la compagnie de Jésus apôtre des Indes et du Japon (map)
Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552
Missions -- India
Missions -- Japan
Jesuits -- Spain -- Biography
Christian saints --Biography
The pioneer Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier’s travels took him to much of maritime South and East Asia, including Ceylon and Japan. The cult of Xavier in Ireland has involved widespread distribution of hagiographies and biographies. Bouhours’ text was one of the earliest and most popular, being translated into English in 1688 by John Dryden.
Bouhours, Dominique, 1628-1702
NUI Maynooth Library
1682
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B 4 2 RUSSELL
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Irish English Primer (title page)
Irish
English
Primers
Readers (Primary)
Aesop’s fables are part of a pan-Eurasian folklore tradition shared with the Jataka tales of the Buddha’s previous lives: tales such as “The fox and the crow” appear in Aesop with one moral and in the Jatakas with a very different interpretation. This bilingual chapbook was “intended for the use of schools” – in 1815 this meant mainly hedge schools. Ireland’s intersection with Buddhist Asia was not necessarily restricted to elites (and not necessarily always recognised as such).
Connellan, Thaddeus, -1854
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1815
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An Irish English Primer (fables)
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Primers
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Irish-English primer together with a few of Aesop’s fables, in Irish and English.
Aesop’s fables are part of a pan-Eurasian folklore tradition shared with the Jataka tales of the Buddha’s previous lives: tales such as “The fox and the crow” appear in Aesop with one moral and in the Jatakas with a very different interpretation. This bilingual chapbook was “intended for the use of schools” – in 1815 this meant mainly hedge schools. Ireland’s intersection with Buddhist Asia was not necessarily restricted to elites (and not necessarily always recognised as such).
Connellan, Thaddeus, -1854
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1815
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Irish English Primer map
Irish
English
Primers
Readers (Primary)
Aesop’s fables are part of a pan-Eurasian folklore tradition shared with the Jataka tales of the Buddha’s previous lives: tales such as “The fox and the crow” appear in Aesop with one moral and in the Jatakas with a very different interpretation. This bilingual chapbook was “intended for the use of schools” – in 1815 this meant mainly hedge schools. Ireland’s intersection with Buddhist Asia was not necessarily restricted to elites (and not necessarily always recognised as such).
Connellan, Thaddeus, -1854.
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1815
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