Bell, Sir C.

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Full Name

Sir Charles Alfred Bell

Affiliation

England

Royal Central Asian Society

Other Information

Bell, Charles (1870–1945)

English civil servant and traveller. He is remembered as a champion of Tibetan independence and the author of several works on Tibet.

He was present at the Tibet Conference 1913–14 and conducted a diplomatic mission in 1920 to Lhasa, where he stayed for 11 months. In 1934 and 1935 he travelled in Tibet, Mongolia, Manchuria, and Siberia, and in 1937 was awarded the Lawrence Memorial Medal by the Royal Central Asian Society. His writings include Tibet: Past and Present (1924), The Religion of Tibet (1941), and Portrait of the Dalai Lama (1946). He was knighted in 1922.

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