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GB 891 RAS MEMB-RAS MEMB/5-RAS MEMB/5/3-RAS MEMB/5/3/17 · Item · March 29 1999
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Membership

Photocopy of an article in Daily Telegraph entitled ‘Suu Kyi's dilemma over husband's funeral', dated March 29, 1999. The article is about whether Burmese activist, Aung San Suu Kyi should leave Burma to attend the funeral of her British husband, Dr Michael Aris.

GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/187 · File · 22nd Sep 1883
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

News cutting from The Athenaeum containing a Review of "Tibetan Tales derived from Indian Sources" by F. Anton von Schiefner, translated by W.R.S. Ralston which mentions Ralston's tribute to Hodgson for his liberality in providing manuscripts for study. Printed material, 2 sides, dated 22 September 1883.

Ralston William Ralston Shedden 1828-1889 Russian scholar
GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/186 · File · 15th Sep 1883
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

News cutting from The Athenaeum containing a Review of "Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge", written by Cecil Bendall. This review mentions Hodgson's zeal in obtaining many of these manuscripts. Printed material, 1 side, dated 15 September 1883.

Bendall Cecil 1856-1906 Professor of Sanskrit
GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/193 · File · 5th Jan 1884
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

News cutting from the Athenaeum containing a list of volumes which Brian Houghton Hodgson had sent to the Vatican having been given them by the Grand Lama of Tibet. They had been confiscated from former Catholic missionaries. Printed material, 1 side, dated 5 January 1884.

Brian Houghton Hodgson
GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/197 · File · 30th Aug 1884
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

News cutting from [The Academy] containing reviews of three catalogues of Sanskrit and Chinese Buddhist manuscripts by Bunyiu Nanjio (Clarenden Press 1883), Cecil Bendall (Cambridge University Press 1883) and Rajendralal Mitra (Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 1882). Includes reference to Buddhist texts preserved in Nepal and the translated versions of many of them in China. Printed material, 2 sides, dated 30 August 1884.