 In 1874 he was appointed headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School at Darjeeling.In 1878, a Tibetan teacher, Lama Ugyen Gyatso arranged a passport for Sarat Chandra to go the monastery at Tashilhunpo.In June 1879, Das and Ugyen-gyatso left Darjeeling for the first of two journeys to Tibet.