| 摘 要： | I. The man
Of the earliest British travellers to Tibet, one of the least understood and appreciated by his fellow countrymen, at least in British India, is perhaps Thomas Manning （I772-I840）. Unlike his English predecessors in Tibet, among them George Bogle and Samuel Turner, who travelled only to Shigatse （日喀则） and Tashilhunpo （札什伦布）, Manning travelled without either the financial or political support of the East India Company. And due to his own ineffable will and resourcefulness, he became the first Englishman to enter Lhasa.
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