Overview
Csoma Room Foundation Journey
Alexander Csoma de Kőrös set off on a long journey by foot from Transylvania in the beginning of the 19th century in order to find the origins of the Hungarian people. On his way, he was commissioned by William Moorcroft, a British employee of the East Asia Company to compile the first Tibetan-English Dictionary and the Tibetan Grammar of scientific level. To find a helper in his daunting endeavor, he made a detour to the remote village of Zangla, to meet Sanghe Puntsog, a highly educated lama. Working in an unheated room of the royal palace with the help of Sanghe Puntsog lama, this book would later become his magnum opus, making Csoma a well-known scholar and the founder of Tibetology.
