Contents: Abbreviations. Introduction. I. Introductory matter: 1. Previous studies of Tibetan Pilgrimage. 2. Tibetan religious geography: A Tibetan Literary Genre. 3. A bibliography of Tibetan-language geographical works. II. A pilgrimage to Central Tibet: An example of a Lam Yig: 4. Introductory remarks to the edition and translation. 5. Edition of the Tibetan text. 6. Translation of the Tibetan text. III. The author, 'Jam-dbyangs-bstan-pa-rgya-mtsho: 7. The author and his lineage. 8. A brief biography of 'Jam-dbyangs-bstan-pa-rgya-mtsho. Notes. Bibliography.

"Account of a Pilgrimage to Central Tibet investigates a rare text, the dbus gtsang gi gnas bskor and its author 'Jam-dbyangs-bstan-pa-rgya-mtsho about whom very little was formerly known. This Brag-dgon-pa lama made his pilgrimage in 1916, while visiting Central Tibet and meeting the thirteenth Dalai Lama.

Besides an edition and annotated translation of part of the guidebook, as well as translation of the biographical material about 'Jam-dbyangs-bstan-pa-rgya-mtsho, this study also provides a bibliography that lists and classifies some 370 Tibetan-language works belonging to the Tibetan literary genre of historical and sacred geography."