Old Cemetery

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“My first path in Darjeeling led to the European Cemetery. There, in the oldest row of graves, stands a tombstone in the form of a column. Its inscription announces that this is the burial place of Alexander Csoma de Körös—born 4 April 1784; died 11 April 1842—who devoted his life to the East and spent years of patient labour and extreme privation in the service of knowledge, compiling a dictionary and grammar of the Tibetan language, his best and truest memorial. The life of this man, who is now hailed as the Father of Tibetan Studies, reads like a novel.”

[Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René von. 1957a. Where the Gods Are Mountains: Three Years among the People of the Himalayas. Translated by Michael Bullock. New York: Reynal and Company, 26]