After the Turkish War (1877-1878) I made a series of travels in the Orient. From the little remarkable Balkan peninsula, I went across the Caucasus to Central Asia and Persia, and finally, in 1887, vi
A Russian explorer of the 1890s visited a Tibetan monastery, where he heard of a "western Dalai Lama" who visited the region 2,000 years before. Nicolas Notovitch's discovery offers an intriguing, con