Another Tract for the Buryats: Including I. J. Schmidt's Recentlly Identified Kalmuck Originals

By Charles R. Bawden

The present study focuses on a second tract (probably also 1818) by Schmidt, so far unknown, from the collections of Vilnius University, and includes two of the original versions in Kalmuck which were also tracked down. These tracts allow a closer look at the difficult work of the translator, a glimpse at his workshop, in his efforts

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447068310
• ISBN13: 9783447068314
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 131 Pages