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↑ Up one levelLetter from Rev. C. Gutzlaff on Buddhist Literature in China
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Reference code
GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/1
Publication status
Published
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Extent and medium
1 page handwritten
Date(s)
- 24th Aug 1846 (Creation)
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Name of creator
_Gützlaff_
_Karl Friedrich August_
_1803-1851_
Biographical history
Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Charles Gutzlaff), was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and Korea (1832). He was also the first Lutheran missionary to China. He was a magistrate in Ningpo and Chusan and the second Chinese Secretary of the British administration in Hong Kong.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
'Copy of a letter by the Rev. C. Gutzlaff, dated Victoria, Hong Kong, 24 August 1846, on the subject of Buddhist literature'. Gutzlaff is replying to Colonel Sykes' enquiry about Buddhist literature and explains that the largest collection he has seen is on the 'Golden Island' and consists of 'beautifully bound volumes in yellow covers'. These were a present more than a century ago and the inscriptions he has seen are in Sanskrit. Gutzlaff then explains that collections in China are superseded by those in Siam (Thailand). He also informs that 'the land where Pali books are most valued is Cambodia'.
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Language of material
- English
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