Dossier BHH/1/7 - Copy of a letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 30 December 1829

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GB 891 BHH-BHH/1-BHH/1/7

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Copy of a letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, 30 December 1829

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  • 30th Dec 1829 (Création/Production)

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Alexander Csoma de Koros was a Hungarian philologist who wrote the first Tibetan-English dictionary. He studied oriental languages in Gottingen and lived from 1819 to his death in 1842 in the Indian sub-continent studying the languages and the people.

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Copy of a letter from Alexander Csoma de Koros to Brian Houghton Hodgson, with critical comments on Hodgson's Hodgson's newly written work, "Notices of the Languages, Literature and Religion of the Bauddhas of Nepal and Bhot", in Asiatic Researches vol. 16, 1828. Includes comments on Tibetan pronunciation, history of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhist texts of Kagyur and Tangyur, the content or Kar-chyag of which he had sent to Csoma for perusal. Handwritten, 4 sides, original letter dated 30 December 1829.

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