Autobiography II Narrative of the incidents of my early life

Sarat Chandra Das, the famous Bengali explorer and scholar of the nineteenth century, went to Tibet twice, first in 1879 and second time in 1881-82. At a time, when Tibet was a forbidden land for foreigners. He was the third Indian to reach Lhasa in 1882. Apart from his contributions on the geographical research, Das, a scholar of the Tibetan language and Buddhism, collected and later dispersed a lot of information on the cultural and social life, religion and politics of Tibet, which was, at his time, little known to the world. This Autobiography of Sarat Chandra Das was first published serially in the Modern Review during 1908-09 Later in 1969, it was published as a book. In his first journey undertaken in 1879, Sarat Das visited Tashi-lhunpo monastery located near Shigatse of Tibet. The account of this first journey of Das, was first published as a Government Report of the Survey of India Department in 1881. Extracts from the above narrative, on how Das crossed the Himalayas, was included in the book titled 'My Himalayan Journeys' published by Monfakira in 2008. The full account of this journey, apart from the account of Das's early life as the Headmaster of the Tibetan Boarding School at Darjeeling and the diaries he kept during his stay at Tashi-lhunpo, can be found in this autobiographical work. The Autobiography, as the name suggests, narrates the early part of Sarat Das's life and only his first visit to Tibet made in 1879.