78 Gaur Das Bysack — Notes on a Buddhist Monastery [No. 1, 
The permission was granted and forwarded to Mr. Bogle through the 
Deb Baja. Not content with being instrumental in obtaining passports, 
he came down to meet the mission in their journey up, and joining them 
at Giausu, conducted them at once to the Latna’s Tashi Rabgya palace. 
During the whole period of Mr. Bogle’s sojourn in Tibet, Puran 
Gir was not only his cicerone, interpreter, and adviser, but he was 
unremitting in his endeavours to establish a friendly disposition in the 
mind of the Tashi Lama towards the British Government, and to bring 
about that intimacy which grew up between these personages. He was 
the constant referee of both on various matters of importance, and often 
cited by them as a witness in respect of the personal dealings of each 
relating to tho mission on any points in the administrations of Tibet 
and Bengal. Bogle asking him to say how tolerant of religions matters, 
and how successful in promoting security of life and property was the 
Government of Hastings, and the Lama inviting him to testify how 
peace-loving and quiet were his people, and how grateful wore his senti- 
ments towards Mr. Hastings for his ready compliance with his request, 
of whom he said “ he (Mr. Hastings) has made him very happy, and 
“ has done a very pious action. My servants (among whom was 
“ Puran Gir) who went to Calcutta were only little men, and the kind 
“ reception they had from the Governor I consider as another mark of 
“ his friendship.” 1 
It has been already stated that the contemplated second mission to 
Tibet under Mr. Bogle in 1779 was prevented by the departure of the 
Tashi Lama at the time to Peking, and by the death of Bogle himself 
in 1781, and that Puran Gir Gosaiu had, at the instance of the Govern- 
ment of Bengal, accompanied the Lama to China. 
He showed his powei’S of observation by taking notes of every 
important event in the journey of the Lama, of his interview with the 
Emperor and of his reception. He actually wrote out a graphic account 
of all this. Who translated it is not known, but a translation was with 
Mr. Hastings from whom, through various channels, Mr. A. Dalrymple 
obtained it, and published it in the Oriental Repertory. It is most in- 
teresting and of special value in connection with tho present subject, it, 
or rather its original, being the literary production of our versatile 
Gosain, Among many facts contained in it, those that should be noted 
here are : — the extraordinary veneration and esteem which tho Chinese 
Emperor exhibited towards the Lama in his repoated entreaties, whereby 
he pressed him to come to China on his having at first declined to go 
there ; in the grand and expensive preparations that were made through- 
out the entire course of a long and slow journey, and in the assiduous 
1 Markham, ibid,, p. 136. 
