Category

Tibetologists

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Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

Hungarian philologist and orientalist (1784-1842)

Francis Younghusband

British army explorer (1863–1942)

Rahul Sankrityayan

Indian scholar and author (1893 – 1963)

Gombojab Tsybikov

Russian explorer of Tibet (1873-1930)

Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark

anthropologist, specialising in Tibetan beliefs and customs

Italian orientalist (1894–1984)

Austrian-American scientist-explorer (1884-1962)

Sarat Chandra Das

Indian scholar of Tibetan language and culture (1849-1917)

Anton Schiefner

Baltic German linguist and tibetologist (1817–1879)

Józef Kowalewski

Polish orientalist (1800–1878)

Tsendiin Damdinsüren

Mongolian writer and linguist (1908–1986)

Alexander Berzin

American scholar of Tibetan Buddhism (born 1944)

Ippolito Desideri

Jesuit Italian Tibetologist (1684-1733)

Isaac Jacob Schmidt

Dutch orientalist

British academic (1946–1999)

Berthold Laufer

German academic (1874-1934)

George de Roerich

Russian tibetologist (1902–1960)

Turrell V. Wylie

American tibetologist (1927–1984)

Charles Alfred Bell

British civil servant and Tibetologist (1870-1945)

Chinese linguist and sinologist (1902–1987)

Albert Grünwedel

German explorer, tibetologist (1856-1935)

French ethnologist, author and explorer (1937–2011)

Heinrich August Jäschke

German missionary (1817–1883)

Christopher I. Beckwith

American linguist

Philippe Édouard Foucaux

French tibetologist (1811-1894)

French tibetologist (1911–1999)

Jeffrey Hopkins

American university teacher (1940–2024)

David Snellgrove

British Tibetologist (1920-2016)

Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

American scholar of Buddhism

Elliot Sperling

American historian (1951–2017)

William Woodville Rockhill

American diplomat and Sinologist (1854–1914)

Melvyn Goldstein

American anthropologist

Bangladeshi mountain climber

Italian historian (1914-2010)

British Sinologist

Josep Lluís Alay Rodríguez

Spanish historian and professor

Hugh Edward Richardson

British diplomat and Tibetologist (1905–2000)

Norwegian tibetologist

Emil Schlagintweit

German orientalist (1835–1904)

German sinologist (1893-1981)

Roy Andrew Miller

American linguist (1924 – 2014)

Esper Ukhtomsky

Russian orientalist (1861-1921)

Chinese politician of Tibetan ethnicity (b. 1926, d. 2013)

Françoise Pommaret

French Tibetologist

French writer, historian and Tibetologist

Prussian linguist, explorer and lecturer of XIXth century, specialised in Central Asia cultures

Russian Buddhist writer and Tibetan studies scholar (1914–1974)

Nicolas Tournadre

French linguist

August Hermann Francke

Translator of English and Tibetan

Françoise Robin

French Tibetologist

Czech translator, sinologist and tibetologist (1933–2021)

German Tibetologist

Katia Buffetrille

French tibetologist

Andrei Vostrikov

Russian academician (1902-1937)

René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz

Austrian ethnologist (1923–1959)

American anthropologist

Nirmal Chandra Sinha

Indian tibetologist

A. Tom Grunfeld

Professor of East Asian history

Bhutanese scholar