A popular-scientific work written for the wider public must provide material of sufficient interest to hold the attention of readers with different tastes and demands. With this in mind, the authors have interwoven with the main fabric of the text the story of the life and work of Tsanyan Jamtso, the Sixth Dalai-Lama. The religious hierarch of Tibet was a poet of originality and importance, and also a politician of tragic destiny who perished in the struggle waged against him by Ching China to establish and strengthen her influence in Tibet.
The authors hope that the sections on Tsanyan Jamtso — brief as they are, but presented with a certain literary inventiveness, while keeping within the bounds of known facts — and also the purely informative «scientific» chapters (which may seem rather dry) will encourage readers who know Russian to glance into the amazing world of the Tibetan past and its culture.
It is thought that readers abroad, including Tibetans will share the authors’ feeling of profound respect for the Tibetan people, who living in the harshest and most difficult natural conditions, yet created a civilization of their own, unique, original, a notable contribution to the cultural treasury of all mankind.
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