Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Tibetologists, Gombojab Tsybikov, Albert Grunwedel, Francoise Pommaret, Franz Anton Schiefner, Kamil Sedla ek, Siegbert Hummel, Isaac Jacob Schmidt, Per Kvaerne, Rene de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Tom Tillemans, Rolf Stein, Giuseppe Tucci, Marcelle Lalou, Ippolito Desideri, Sandor K rosi 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 Geza, 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 Damdinsuren, Samten Karmay, China Tibetology Research Center, Theo Sorensen, 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 Edouard 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 Mongo..