Fakes, Delusions, or the Real Thing? Albert Grünwedel's Maps of Shambhala.
The explorer Albert Grünwedel's Tibetan maps of Shambhala are a controversial and contested part of the history of the exploration of the Silk Routes. In the early 1900s Albert Grünwedel collected material related to archaeological sites at Kucha and Turfan including several Tibetan maps of the regi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 140; no. 2; pp. 273 - 287 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
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