1st Edition
Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals The English Missionaries in Siberia
Preface Acknowledgements Dates and Measurements 1. Early Plans 2. I. J. Schmidt and the Kalmucks 3. The Beginnings of the Mission 4. The Missionaries: Stallybrass and Rahmn 5. The Missionaries: Swan and Yuille 6. St Petersburg and the Buryat Zaisangs 7. The Journey to Irkutsk 8. From Irkutsk to Selenginsk 9. The Buryats of Transbaikalia 10. The Missionaries Separate 11. Family Life in Siberia 12. Missionary and Lama 13. Preaching to the People 14. The Mission Schools 15. Translating the Bible 16. Printing the Old Testament 17. The External Relations of the Mission 18. The End of the Mission Maps Appendix Bibliography Index.
Biography
C. R. Bawden was a Professor of the Mongolian language in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London from 1970 to 1984.
Review of the Original Publication:
“This book tells the full story of the mission to the Buryat Mongols of Eastern Siberia launched in 1814 by the London Missionary Society in conjunction with the British and Foreign Bible Society at a time when the ideas of Alexander I about the spreading of the Gospel made such a venture possible… It was thought that the translation of the Bible into Mongolian and the subsequent conversion of the Buryats would lead to greater things. The idea was of penetrating China- after evangelizing various tribes in Siberia- at a time when there was no access to the Chinese coastal ports. It was a grand design which, as Professor Bawden shows, was based on false premises…”
- George Lewinson, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Oct. 1986), pp. 612-614
