File RAS GOV7/1 - Letter from Rev. C. Gutzlaff on Buddhist Literature in China

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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/1

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Letter from Rev. C. Gutzlaff on Buddhist Literature in China

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  • 24th Aug 1846 (Creation)

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1 page handwritten

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Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Charles Gutzlaff), was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and Korea (1832). He was also the first Lutheran missionary to China. He was aread more

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'Copy of a letter by the Rev. C. Gutzlaff, dated Victoria, Hong Kong, 24 August 1846, on the subject of Buddhist literature'. Gutzlaff is replying to Colonel Sykes' enquiry about Buddhist literature and explains that the largest collection he has seen isread more

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  • English

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