<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:identifier>doi:10.7916/d8-fw02-m447</dc:identifier><dc:title>Biography of Late Rev. Gergan Tharchin</dc:title><dc:format>manuscripts</dc:format><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:subject>Clergy--India</dc:subject><dc:subject>Christianity--20th century.--India</dc:subject><dc:subject>Christianity--20th century.--Tibet Region</dc:subject><dc:subject>Schools--20th century.--China</dc:subject><dc:subject>Newspaper publishing--20th century.--Tibet Region</dc:subject><dc:subject>Tibet Autonomous Region (China) History 20th century</dc:subject><dc:subject>Tharchin, G., 1890-1976</dc:subject><dc:subject>Singh, Sundar, 1889-1929</dc:subject><dc:subject>Graham, John A. (John Anderson), 1861-1942</dc:subject><dc:description>Typeset (unpublished?) biography of Gegen Dorje Tharchin, a Christian convert and founding editor of the Tibet Mirror newspaper (Kalimpong, India), emphasizing his religious activity. The first half of the biography covers his relations with Sadhu Sunder [sic] Singh, opening of a school in Gyantse, Tibet, and founding of the Tibet Mirror printing press in the 1920s, and refers to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and to Rev. Dr. John Anderson Graham. The second half continues to follow his religious and publishing activity, and details his audiences with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, etc.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>