Jesuit on the roof of the world : Ippolito Desideri's mission to eighteenth-century Tibet / Trent Pomplun.

Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

xvi, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Jesuit phantasia -- From Rome to Lhasa -- Tibetan religion in theological perspective -- The Zünghar invasion -- The fight with the friars -- Compositio loci: Tibet.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-294) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.