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A NORWEGIAN TRAVELLER IN TIBET. THEO SORENSON AND THE TIBETAN COLLECTION AT THE OSLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Per Kvaerne 1973
By Kvaerne, Per
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New Delhi, 1973, 1st edition. 102 pp. Theodor August Christian Sørensen (1873 – 1959) was a Norwegian missionary known for his work in Tibet.

He then went to British India with the Tibetan Pioneer Mission, settled near the Tibetan border and undertook studies of its language and religions. He wanted to travel within Tibet, but as this was rejected by the British colonial power, he moved to Chengdu, Chinese Empire in 1896. Here he studied the Chinese language, and proclaimed that learning Chinese was a "delight" compared to Tibetan. From 1899 to 1923 he lived and worked for the China Inland Mission in Kangding, Sichuan.

He did not particularly succeed as a missionary, but conducted several longer travels in Eastern Tibet and became known for collecting Tibetan scripture. Among others, he found a series of written sheets in the ruins of a monastery. Upon returning to Norway in 1923, he donated a 314-volume collection of Tibetan Buddhist canon to the University of Kristiania. The texts particularly pertained to Bön and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

For his contribution, Sørensen was declared a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1922 and the Royal Geographical Society in 1923. In 1953 he was proclaimed Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. He lived the rest of his life in Norway, except for the years 1925 to 1936 which he spent in Peking. Hardcover, leather bound, as New.
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