[5] According to Schlagintweit, “ ‘Constructed Vessel,’ a work on moral subjects forming part of the Kanjur.” [↑]
[6] Emil Schlagintweit, “Buddhism in Tibet,” pp. 60–70. [↑]
[8] In a letter to the writer of the Introduction. [↑]
[9] In Hungarian his name would be written Körösi Csoma Sándor; in French, Alexandre Csoma de Körös; in English, he signed himself Alexander Csoma Körösi, the name Körösi being an adjectival form, meaning “of Körös.” [↑]
[10] The exact date of his birth has not been ascertained, but one of his Hungarian biographers states that he was about thirty when he started eastward in 1820. Another asserts that he was born in the Transylvanian village of Körös, on the 4th of April 1784. [↑]
[11] In a letter, containing a brief sketch of his life up to that time, which was published in 1834 in the first volume of the “Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,” and from which are taken the passages cited above as quotations. [↑]
[12] Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. xiv., part 2, p. 824. [↑]
[13] Quoted by Dr. Campbell from an editorial article by Professor H. H. Wilson in the supplement to the Government Gazette of 9th July 1829. Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. xi., part 1, p. 305. A second article by Dr. Campbell, including a letter from Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd, was published in vol. xiv., part 2, pp. 823–827. [↑]
[14] In an interesting article on Tibet in the Revue des Deux Mondes, vme série, tom. 19 (July 1847). [↑]