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With this book, we have front-row seats to see the first substantial encounter between Roman Catholicism and Vajrayana Buddhism ... excellent insights. Luke Clossey, Journal of the American Academy Religion

<br> A great feat of historiography, this at-once sympathetic and unblinking account of Desideri's missionary career and the collective fantasies behind it makes for terrific reading. Treated to a feast of intimate details drawn from letters, journals, and theological tracts alike, the reader comes to understand from the inside the ambitions and the disappointments of this seminal moment in the history of what we now call interreligious dialogue. Desideri's fascinating story helps us appreciate his complex combination of admiration, accommodation, and refutation of Tibetan Buddhist thought, all set against the turbulent period in Lhasa during the life of the Sixth Dalai Lama, not to mention virulent competition between Christian missionary sects at the time. <br>-- Janet Gyatso, author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary <br> This is a very important book. It is the first in English seriously to treat the life and work of Ippolito Desideri

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Trent Pomplun is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. His research interests include late medieval and early modern Catholicism, missions history, and Indo-Tibetan religion and culture. Jesuit on the Roof of the World is his first book.

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