Read Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen

Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen

Books LLC

4.9/5 (13783 ratings)

Description:Chapters: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, Jr., Kare Daehlen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Theodor August Christian Sorensen (25 May 1873 2 September 1959) was a Norwegian missionary known for his work in Tibet. He was born in Kristiansand as the son of a carpenter. He experienced a religious revival in 1891, and joined the Salvation Army. From 1892 to 1894 he attended a bible school in the United Kingdom. He then went to British India with the Tibetan Pioneer Mission, settled near the Tibetan border and undertook studies of its language and religions. He wanted to travel within Tibet, but as this was rejected by the British colonial power, he moved to Chengdu, Chinese Empire in 1896. Here he studied the Chinese language, and proclaimed that learning Chinese was a "delight" compared to Tibetan. From 1899 to 1923 he lived and worked for the China Inland Mission in Kangding, Sichuan. He did not particularly succeed as a missionary, but conducted several longer travels in Eastern Tibet and became known for collecting Tibetan scripture. Among others, he found a series of written sheets in the ruins of a monastery. Upon returning to Norway in 1923, he donated a 314-volume collection of Tibetan Buddhist canon to the University of Kristiania. The texts particularly pertained to Bon and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. For his contribution, Sorensen was declared a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1922 and the Royal Geographical Society in 1923. In 1953 he was proclaimed Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. He lived the rest of his life in Norway, except for the years 1925 to 1936 which he spent in Peking. He had married fellow missionary Cecilie "Cissi" R...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=227631We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen. To get started finding Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Books LLC

Release: 2010

ISBN: 115862591X

Description: Chapters: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, Jr., Kare Daehlen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Theodor August Christian Sorensen (25 May 1873 2 September 1959) was a Norwegian missionary known for his work in Tibet. He was born in Kristiansand as the son of a carpenter. He experienced a religious revival in 1891, and joined the Salvation Army. From 1892 to 1894 he attended a bible school in the United Kingdom. He then went to British India with the Tibetan Pioneer Mission, settled near the Tibetan border and undertook studies of its language and religions. He wanted to travel within Tibet, but as this was rejected by the British colonial power, he moved to Chengdu, Chinese Empire in 1896. Here he studied the Chinese language, and proclaimed that learning Chinese was a "delight" compared to Tibetan. From 1899 to 1923 he lived and worked for the China Inland Mission in Kangding, Sichuan. He did not particularly succeed as a missionary, but conducted several longer travels in Eastern Tibet and became known for collecting Tibetan scripture. Among others, he found a series of written sheets in the ruins of a monastery. Upon returning to Norway in 1923, he donated a 314-volume collection of Tibetan Buddhist canon to the University of Kristiania. The texts particularly pertained to Bon and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. For his contribution, Sorensen was declared a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1922 and the Royal Geographical Society in 1923. In 1953 he was proclaimed Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. He lived the rest of his life in Norway, except for the years 1925 to 1936 which he spent in Peking. He had married fellow missionary Cecilie "Cissi" R...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=227631We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen. To get started finding Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen

Norwegian Expatriates in India: Theo Sorensen, Gerhard Meidell Gerhardsen, Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, Tancred Ibsen, JR., Kare Daehlen

More Books

This American Life Personalities: David Rakoff, Dan Savage, David Sedaris, John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell, IRA Glass, Jon Ronson, Julia Sweeney

This American Life Personalities: David Rakoff, Dan Savage, David Sedaris, John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell, IRA Glass, Jon Ronson, Julia Sweeney

Quantum Mind: Roger Penrose, Orch-Or, David Bohm, David Chalmers, Shadows of the Mind, Stuart Hameroff, Karl H. Pribram, Holonomic B

Quantum Mind: Roger Penrose, Orch-Or, David Bohm, David Chalmers, Shadows of the Mind, Stuart Hameroff, Karl H. Pribram, Holonomic B

Tamil History: History of Tamil Nadu, Sources of Ancient Tamil History, Economy of Ancient Tamil Country, Pandyan Dynasty, Puli Thevar

Tamil History: History of Tamil Nadu, Sources of Ancient Tamil History, Economy of Ancient Tamil Country, Pandyan Dynasty, Puli Thevar

Works by Octavia Butler

Works by Octavia Butler

Punjabi Poets: Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Amrita Pritam, Sangtar, Sultan Bahu, Ishar Singh, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Bulleh Shah

Punjabi Poets: Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Amrita Pritam, Sangtar, Sultan Bahu, Ishar Singh, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Bulleh Shah

Entebbe (Balfour Books, LLC)

Entebbe (Balfour Books, LLC)

Sri Lankan Tamil History: Origins of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dutch Period in Ceylon, Sri Lanka and State Terrorism

Sri Lankan Tamil History: Origins of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dutch Period in Ceylon, Sri Lanka and State Terrorism

Malayalam Writers: M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Gireesh Puthenchery, Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Nettur P. Damodaran, M. N. Vijayan, Kamala Surayy

Malayalam Writers: M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Gireesh Puthenchery, Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Nettur P. Damodaran, M. N. Vijayan, Kamala Surayy

Mbti Types: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Intj, Entj, Entp, Esfp, Istj, Intp, Infp, Infj, Enfj, Esfj, Istp, Estp, Estj, Isfp, Isfj, Enfp

Mbti Types: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Intj, Entj, Entp, Esfp, Istj, Intp, Infp, Infj, Enfj, Esfj, Istp, Estp, Estj, Isfp, Isfj, Enfp