As the route therein described is the same as that followed by the traveler in his second and more extended journey of 1881-82, and as the results of his studies in Tibet in 1879, as shown in this report, bear nearly exclusively on historical and religious subjects
It has been deemed advisable to omit it from the present publication, embodying in footnotes all such details as have been found in it bearing on the geography and ethnology of Tibet, and which are not in the later and fuller report.
Sarat Chandra spent 1880 at his home in Darjiling, working on papers on the history, religion, ethnology, and folk-lore of Tibet, drawn from the data collected during his journey.
These papers, most of them of great value to Oriental students, have since appeared in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society and in that of the Buddhist Text Society of India, which Sarat Chandra founded in 1892, and of which he has since remained the secretary.
In November 1881, Sarat Chandra and Ugyen-gyatso returned to Tibet, where they explored the Yarlung Valley, where Tibetan civilization is said to have first made its appearance and returned to India in January 1883.
The report of this journey was printed in two separate publications by order of the Government of Bengal. They are entitled,”Narrative of a Journey to Lhasa,” and “Narrative of a Journey Round Lake Palti (Yamdok), and in Lhokha, Yarlung, and Sakya.” For various reasons these reports were kept as strictly confidential documents by the Indian Government until about 1890, when selections from them, bearing exclusively upon the ethnology of Tibet, however, appeared in an article in the July number of the Contemporary Review. For a time, he worked as a spy for the British, going on expeditions into Tibet to gather information on the Tibetans, Russians and Chinese. After he left Tibet, the reasons for his visit were discovered and many of the Tibetans who had befriended him suffered severe reprisals.
For the latter part of his life, Das settled in Darjeeling. He named his house “Lhasa Villa” and played host to many notable guests including Sir Charles Alfred Bell and Ekai Kawaguchi.
Johnson stated that, in 1882 Das met with Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, the two individuals notable for the founding of the Theosophy Society.
Research and Scholarly Credits: A JOURNEY TO LHASA AND CENTRAL TIBET by SARAT CHANDEA DAS, of the Bengal Educational Service, Member of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, etc. EDITED BY THE HON. W. W. EOCKHILL, SECOND EDITION, REVISED.