Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: Tibetologists, Gombojab Tsybikov, Albert Grünwedel, Françoise Pommaret, Franz Anton Schiefner, Kamil Sedlácek, Siegbert Hummel, Isaac Jacob Schmidt, Per Kværne, René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Tom Tillemans, Rolf Stein, Giuseppe Tucci, Marcelle Lalou, Ippolito Desideri, Sándor Korösi Csoma, Luciano Petech, Henk Blezer, Christopher I. Beckwith, George van Driem, Hermann Beckh, Christian K. Wedemeyer, Bidia Dandaron, Melvyn Goldstein, Mark Aldenderfer, Yoshio Nishi, Hugh Edward Richardson, Richard Keith Sprigg, Michael Aris, Philip Denwood, Berthold Laufer, Uray Géza, Roy Andrew Miller, Tsering Shakya, David Snellgrove, Charles Ramble, Li Fang-Kuei, E. Gene Smith, Walter Simon, Norbulingka Institute, Tibet Institute Rikon, Sarat Chandra Das, Rubin Museum of Art, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Tsendiin Damdinsüren, Samten Karmay, China Tibetology Research Center, Theo Sørensen, Jacques Bacot, Erik Haarh, Amy Heller, Sam van Schaik, Claude Arpi, Nicolas Tournadre, Charles Alfred Bell, Elliot Sperling, Jeffrey Hopkins, Emil Schlagintweit, Dieter Schuh, Frederick William Thomas, August Hermann Francke, Turrell V. Wylie, George de Roerich, A. Tom Grunfeld, Tibet House, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Elena De Rossi Filibeck, Leonard van der Kuijp, Philippe Édouard Foucaux, Georges Dreyfus, Katia Buffetrille, Frank-Richard Hamm, Matthew Kapstein, Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Alex Wayman. Excerpt: Gombojab Tsybikov (Russian: Gombozhab Tsebekovich Tsybikov, Mongolian: , alternatively romanized as Gombozhab and Tsybikoff (20 April 1873 - 20 September 1930), was a Russian explorer of Tibet from 1899 to 1902. Tsybikov specialized in social anthropology, ethnography, Buddhist Studies, and for some time after 1917 was an important educator and statesman in Siberia and Mongolia. Tsybikov is mostly credited for being the first photographer of Tibet, including Lhasa. His travelogue, issued in Russian in 1919, 1981, and 1991, and translated into several languages (Chinese, Czech, English, French, Mongolian, and Polish), included a lot of materials from Tibetan sources on Tibetan history and first-hand accounts on Tibetan affairs of the time, making it an important reference source. Gombojab Tsybikov, also during early life surnamed Montuev (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), was born to a Tibetan Buddhist family of Transbaikalian (Aga region) Buryats. Upon the traditional divisions, his family belonged to a Khori Buryat tribe of Kubdut, clan of Nokhoi Kubdut. His father Tsebek Montuyev studied Mongolian and Tibetan written languages and was locally elected to represent his kinsmen. Originally his idea was to send Gombojab to a Buddhist monastery to study, but later he sent his son to Aga (Orthodox Christian) parish school to study Russian, and later to Chita Gymnasium which Gombojab finished with honors. This earned him a Korf scholarchip so that he could pursue a university degree. At that time he set his mind on becoming a medical doctor. In mid-1890s in Tomsk University, while studying medicine, Gombojab Tsybikov met Dr Peter Badmayev who offered his support insisting that Tsybikov pursues a career in Asian affairs and studies in St Petersburg University. Preparing for this new major, Tsybikov spent some time in Urga at Badmayev's Buryat school, studying Chinese, Mongolian, and Manchu languages. In 1895 he enrolled at the Oriental Faculty of St Petersburg University with a grant f...