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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Das    
First Name(s)  Sarat Chandra Rai Bahadur    
Year of Birth  1849    
Entry  Born July 18, 1849 : educated at Chittagong and the Calcutta Presidency College : and in that College's Engineering Department : in 1874 was appointed Head Master of the Bhutia boarding school at Darjeeling : began to study Tibetan from Lama Ugyen Gyatso, a teacher there : in 1878 the latter, on a visit to Tashi Lhumpo (Teshu Lumbo) in Tibet, obtained an invitation and passport for Sarat Chandra to visit Lhasa : in June, 1879, they started together to visit Lhasa with a servant : returned after six months from Tashi Lhumpo to Darjeeling : in Nov. 1 88 1, they again went to Tashi Lhumpo, and on to Lhasa : wrote his Narrative of a Journey to Lhasa, and Narrative of a Journey round Lake Palti (Yamdok), and in Lhokha, Yarlung and Sakya : in 1884 Sarat accompanied Colman Macaulay (q.v.) to the Lachen Valley in Sikhim, and in 1885 went with him to Pekin: made C.I.E., Jan. 1886 : received a reward from the Royal Geographial Society, 1887 : founded the Buddhist Text Book Society, 1892 : made Rai Bahadur, 1896 : the Royal Geographical Society published His Travels in Tibet, in 1899 : completed his Tibetan- English Dictionary in 1902 : from Sep. 1881 served the Government of Bengal as Tibetan translator : retired from service July, 1904: engaged in compiling a Sanskrit- English dictionary.     
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