Casa Asia

Antoni de Montserrat Grant Programme 2009

Casa Asia has announced the new edition of the Antoni de Montserrat Programme, which aims at encouraging visits of people with acknowledged prestige from Asia and the Pacific to take part in meetings, courses, seminars, trade fairs and cultural festivals organised by institutions or public and private organisations in Spain.

Antoni de Montserrat, who was not very well known in our country, was Ambassador at the Court of Great Mogol in the sixteenth century. He took part in religious dialogues organised by Emperor Akbar and he had the peculiar distinction of being the first cartographer at Himalaya.

Casa Asia has announced in 2009 the Antoni de Montserrat Programme, in order to promote the exchange spirit symbolised by its figure aimed at encouraging visits of people with acknowledged prestige from Asia and the Pacific to take part in meetings, courses, seminars, trade fairs and cultural festivals organised by institutions or public and private organisations in Spain.

3 aids of 6,000 Euros each will be offered for travelling expenses and they must be properly justified by way of travel expenses and/or stay in our country.

The aids called can be applied from the 1st of July to the 30th of November 2009 at:

CASA ASIA
Departamento de Programas Educativos
Av. Diagonal, 373
08008 Barcelona

Complete Requirements (PDF) - Catalan -
Complete Requirements (PDF) - Spanish -
Complete Requirements (PDF) - English -
Informative Leaflet - Catalan -
Informative Leaflet - Spanish -
Informative Leaflet - English -

Antoni de Montserrat Antoni de Montserrat (Vic, 1536 - Salsete, India, 1600) was a Catalan Jesuit who spent the first years of his priesthood in Portugal. In 1574 he was sent to a mission in the Portuguese colony of Goa and five years later he was given a delicate job: an Embassy in the court of Great Mogul Akbar. At the Emperor?s court he took part in dialogues and religious debates between Hindu, Muslim, Jainist and Christian people. He went with Akbar in the Mogul campaign against Kabul and after that, in a trip to Ethiopia, he was captured by pirates and condemned to the galleys. After having been freed, he died in India in 1600. Antoni de Montserrat is considered one of the great European travellers and he made the first map of the Himalaya, an unknown region until then: the Tibet. Antoni de Montserrat has been considered a key person in the European discovery of the Tibet. He wrote a text about that region which has been acknowledged as one of the first Western descriptions of the World?s Ceiling and that inspired the first European expedition to the Tibet twenty four years after his death.

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