Jacques Bacot

Jacques Bacot (born in 1877 with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer - died in 1965 with Paris) was a geographer, Linguiste, Ethnologue, Explorateur and Orientaliste French of the beginning of the 20th century, specialist recognized in the Tibet, which worked with the practical École of the high studies.

Biography

The vocation Tibetan of Jacques Bacot was born from a voyage around the world which it made in 1904 and of a forwarding to the Tibet in 1906, left the Tonkin, during which it followed a route of Pèlerinage which was to put it in intimate contact with the religious life of the Tibetans.

With its return in France, in 1908, it is devoted to the study of the Tibetan near Sylvain Lévi.

Jacques Bacot explored various Asian regions:

the valley of the Chang Jiang (Yangzi Jiang or Blue river ) (1907);
the north of the Indo-China (1909 - 1910);
the the Himalayas (1913 - 1914 and 1930 - 1931)

and travelled much in India, in the west of the China, and in the border regions of the Tibet. He was the first European scientist to study grammar traditional Tibetan, and among the first, with Frederick William Thomas (1867 - 1956), professor of Sanscrit to the Université of Oxford, to decipher the manuscripts of Dunhuang in old Tibetan.

Jacques Bacot was appointed director of studies of Tibetan to the practical École of the high studies in 1936. He became member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1947, and had entered to the Asian Société as of 1908. He became the president about it, with dead of Paul Pelliot, in 1945, and until in 1954 remained it.

Paintings and bronzes which it reported of these various forwardings are now preserved in the collections of the National museum of Asian-Guimet Arts at Paris, with which it made a donation in 1912. Its papers and its documentation were also given to the Guimet Museum after the death of Jacques Bacot.

Works

In the steps Tibetans (1909)
Tibet revolted - Towards Népémakö, Promised land of the Tibetans (1909-1910) , Bookstore Hatchet, (1912) - Republication, Phébus, coll Besides , 1997 - ISBN 2-859-40465-1
Mo-so - Ethnography of Mo-so, their religions, their language and their writing , E.J. Brill, Leyden, (1913).
the poet Milarépa Tibetan, his crimes, its tests, its Nirvāna , Traditional of the East - 11, Bossard Editions, Paris, (1925).
a grammar Tibetan of the traditional Tibetan. Grammatical ślokas of Thonmi Sambhoṭa, with their comments , Annals of the Guimet Museum, Library of studies - 37, Bookstore Orientalist Paul Geuthner, (1928).
life of Marpa the translator , Bookstore Orientalist Paul Geuthner, (1937). - Republication, 1987.
Grammar of the literary Tibetan , Bookstore of America and the East, Paris, (1946).
the Buddha , Myths and religions - 20, university Presses of France, Paris, (1947).
Grammar of the literary Tibetan - morphological Index , Bookstore of America and the East, Paris, (1948).
Recognition in high septentrional Asia by five envoys ouigours in VIIIe century , Asian Newspaper - 2, (1956), pp. 137-153.

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