Charles Bawden

Charles Roskelly Bawden is Emeritus Professor of Mongolian in the University of London. From 1955 to 1984, he was a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. He has written on Mongolian history and literature, and has published a Mongolian-English dictionary that is often cited as the most comprehensive available.^[1] John Man was his student.^[2][3]

In addition to having been elected a Fellow of the British Academy,^[4] he was also awarded the Order of the Pole Star by the Mongolian government. He donated his books to the Ancient India & Iran Trust, Cambridge University. ^[5]

Works

• The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobci. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1955.
• The Jebtsundamba Khutukhtus of Urga; text, translation, and notes. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1961.
• The Modern History of Mongolia. New York: Praeger, 1968.
• Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals: The English Missionaries in Siberia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
• Confronting the Supernatural: Mongolian Traditional Ways and Means. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994.
• Mongolian-English dictionary. London: K. Paul International, 1997.
• Mongolian Traditional Literature: An Anthology. London: Kegan Paul, 2003.

References

1. ^ http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/14/Regional/14cadi02.html
2. ^ http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=LXHBXv8J1wzpQ54bSrxDGMJbgSNZqf0dR1G7gNVvQZj1MnmswsQZ!753466322!25653465?docId=5009757406
3. ^ http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4428685/Centaur-of-attention-John-Man.html
4. ^ http://www.proc.britac.ac.uk/cgi-bin/somsid.cgi?page=authors/auth-b
5. ^ http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=68&Browse=Region&Region=1

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