Son of missionaries to Buddhist China.
On May 22, 1937 Robert B. Ekvall (1898-1978 sic), missionary among the Tibetan Nomads, publishes part one of an article on the life of A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Ekvall was born in China where his parents were missionaries. After his graduation from The Missionary Training Institute in Nyack in 1923, he returned to China. There he began Tibetan language study at Taochow and started work among the Tibetan nomads. In 1938 Ekvall and his wife, Betty, returned to America to write the 50-year history of the Christian and Missionary Alliance as well as a book on mission work in Tibet. During their furlough he studied Sanskrit and cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago with a focus on Tibetan nomads. (https://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/may.htm)
Listed with Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum p. v (b. Minchow, Kansu, China; missionary, explorer, ethnographer, curator of Asian ethnology; research associate, Univ. of Chicago). Served in the U.S. Army. Author of several books & many papers including Tents Against the Sky (1955), Religious Observances in Tibet: Patterns and Function (1964), Fields on the Hoof (1968), and The Lama Knows, a novel (1981).
Presbyterian, worshiped in Enumclaw, WA. Somewhat reclusive. Lived for some years at the end of his life in the Cascade foothills of Mt. Rainier. Social Security number had been issued in New York. Final illness saw him in a medical facility in King Co.
Some auto biographical detail:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-b-ekvall/tibetan-skyinnes/
Ephemera of Robert Ekvall in the Billy Graham Center Archives (WWW homepage, June 16, 2009: Collection 92 p. (interviewed by Robert Shuster on Oct. 1979 and Sept. 1980; d. May 1983).
http://case.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/EKVALL.htm
Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall photographs of Tibet, China, and Vietnam, circa 1925-1940, National Anthropological Archives
On May 22, 1937 Robert B. Ekvall (1898-1978 sic), missionary among the Tibetan Nomads, publishes part one of an article on the life of A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Ekvall was born in China where his parents were missionaries. After his graduation from The Missionary Training Institute in Nyack in 1923, he returned to China. There he began Tibetan language study at Taochow and started work among the Tibetan nomads. In 1938 Ekvall and his wife, Betty, returned to America to write the 50-year history of the Christian and Missionary Alliance as well as a book on mission work in Tibet. During their furlough he studied Sanskrit and cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago with a focus on Tibetan nomads. (https://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/may.htm)
Listed with Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum p. v (b. Minchow, Kansu, China; missionary, explorer, ethnographer, curator of Asian ethnology; research associate, Univ. of Chicago). Served in the U.S. Army. Author of several books & many papers including Tents Against the Sky (1955), Religious Observances in Tibet: Patterns and Function (1964), Fields on the Hoof (1968), and The Lama Knows, a novel (1981).
Presbyterian, worshiped in Enumclaw, WA. Somewhat reclusive. Lived for some years at the end of his life in the Cascade foothills of Mt. Rainier. Social Security number had been issued in New York. Final illness saw him in a medical facility in King Co.
Some auto biographical detail:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-b-ekvall/tibetan-skyinnes/
Ephemera of Robert Ekvall in the Billy Graham Center Archives (WWW homepage, June 16, 2009: Collection 92 p. (interviewed by Robert Shuster on Oct. 1979 and Sept. 1980; d. May 1983).
http://case.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/EKVALL.htm
Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall photographs of Tibet, China, and Vietnam, circa 1925-1940, National Anthropological Archives
Son of missionaries to Buddhist China.
On May 22, 1937 Robert B. Ekvall (1898-1978 sic), missionary among the Tibetan Nomads, publishes part one of an article on the life of A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Ekvall was born in China where his parents were missionaries. After his graduation from The Missionary Training Institute in Nyack in 1923, he returned to China. There he began Tibetan language study at Taochow and started work among the Tibetan nomads. In 1938 Ekvall and his wife, Betty, returned to America to write the 50-year history of the Christian and Missionary Alliance as well as a book on mission work in Tibet. During their furlough he studied Sanskrit and cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago with a focus on Tibetan nomads. (https://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/may.htm)
Listed with Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum p. v (b. Minchow, Kansu, China; missionary, explorer, ethnographer, curator of Asian ethnology; research associate, Univ. of Chicago). Served in the U.S. Army. Author of several books & many papers including Tents Against the Sky (1955), Religious Observances in Tibet: Patterns and Function (1964), Fields on the Hoof (1968), and The Lama Knows, a novel (1981).
Presbyterian, worshiped in Enumclaw, WA. Somewhat reclusive. Lived for some years at the end of his life in the Cascade foothills of Mt. Rainier. Social Security number had been issued in New York. Final illness saw him in a medical facility in King Co.
Some auto biographical detail:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-b-ekvall/tibetan-skyinnes/
Ephemera of Robert Ekvall in the Billy Graham Center Archives (WWW homepage, June 16, 2009: Collection 92 p. (interviewed by Robert Shuster on Oct. 1979 and Sept. 1980; d. May 1983).
http://case.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/EKVALL.htm
Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall photographs of Tibet, China, and Vietnam, circa 1925-1940, National Anthropological Archives
On May 22, 1937 Robert B. Ekvall (1898-1978 sic), missionary among the Tibetan Nomads, publishes part one of an article on the life of A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Ekvall was born in China where his parents were missionaries. After his graduation from The Missionary Training Institute in Nyack in 1923, he returned to China. There he began Tibetan language study at Taochow and started work among the Tibetan nomads. In 1938 Ekvall and his wife, Betty, returned to America to write the 50-year history of the Christian and Missionary Alliance as well as a book on mission work in Tibet. During their furlough he studied Sanskrit and cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago with a focus on Tibetan nomads. (https://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/may.htm)
Listed with Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum p. v (b. Minchow, Kansu, China; missionary, explorer, ethnographer, curator of Asian ethnology; research associate, Univ. of Chicago). Served in the U.S. Army. Author of several books & many papers including Tents Against the Sky (1955), Religious Observances in Tibet: Patterns and Function (1964), Fields on the Hoof (1968), and The Lama Knows, a novel (1981).
Presbyterian, worshiped in Enumclaw, WA. Somewhat reclusive. Lived for some years at the end of his life in the Cascade foothills of Mt. Rainier. Social Security number had been issued in New York. Final illness saw him in a medical facility in King Co.
Some auto biographical detail:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-b-ekvall/tibetan-skyinnes/
Ephemera of Robert Ekvall in the Billy Graham Center Archives (WWW homepage, June 16, 2009: Collection 92 p. (interviewed by Robert Shuster on Oct. 1979 and Sept. 1980; d. May 1983).
http://case.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/EKVALL.htm
Robert Brainerd Ekvall and Betty Ekvall photographs of Tibet, China, and Vietnam, circa 1925-1940, National Anthropological Archives
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