Kapitel: Dungkar Lobsang Thrinle, Giuseppe Tucci, Albert Grünwedel, Hermann Beckh, Claus Vogel, Melvyn Goldstein, Zaya Pandita, Dieter Schuh, Friedrich Alexander Bischoff, Hugh Edward Richardson, Franz Anton Schiefner, Sándor Csoma, René Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Wolfgang-Ekkehard Scharlipp, Rolf Alfred Stein, Chen Qingying, Isaak Jakob Schmidt, Jeffrey Hopkins, Alex Wayman, Michel Peissel, Elliot Sperling, Tsering Shakya, David Snellgrove, Takayama Ryūzō. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Albert Grünwedel (July 31, 1856 – October 28, 1935) was a German indologist, tibetologist archaeologist and explorer of Central Asia. Grünwedel was also one of the first scholars to study the Lepcha language. Grünwedel was born in Munich to the son of a painter in 1856. He studied art history and Asian languages, including Avestan, and in 1883 earned his doctorate at the University of Munich. In 1881 he began work as an assistant at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin and in 1883 he was appointed deputy director of the ethnographic collection. Grünwedel won accolades for his numerous publications on Buddhist art, archaeology Central Asia, and Himalayan languages. Two notable works were Buddhist art in India (1893) and Mythology of Buddhism in Tibet and Mongolia (1900), which concerned the Greek origins of the Gandharan Greco-Buddhist artistic style and its development in Central Asia. In 1899 Grünwedel was invited to join a Russian archaeological research expeditions expedition led by Vasily Radlov into the north of Xinjiang province, China. In the same year he was appointed a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1902-1903 Grünwedel led the first German Turpan expedition in Xinjiang. One of his notable discoveries was of massive ruins near Gaochang. He recorded the events of this expedition in his book Bericht über archäologische Arbeiten in Idikutschahri und Umgebung im Winter 1902-1903 1905. The next expedition was led by Albert …http://booksllc.net/?l=de