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Tsybikov was the first scholar with a European education to visit Tibet and describe its monasteries and temples as an eyewitness traveler and an objective researcher. Tsybikov had two distinct advantages: an ethnic Buryat he could travel as a Buddhist pilgrim and thus have a chance of reaching its mysterious capital Lhasa, the religious and political center of Tibet, which was barred to outsiders, especially Europeans; as a scholar educated at a European university he had the historical and linguistic background to understand and describe what he saw. Tsybikov understood the secretive nature of the lama state and was careful to hide his work as a researcher. It was his journal that became the basis of A Buddhist Pilgrim at the Shrines of Tibet , which has both the vividness of a traveller’s eyewitness account and the informed detachment of a scholar. As a record of both religious practices and the everyday life in Tibet before Chinese inroads during the twentieth century effaced that way of life, Tsybikov’s book is a unique and invaluable snapshot of a lost culture.

Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Buddhist shrines --- Buddhist monasteries --- Monasteries, Buddhist --- Monasteries, Lamaist --- Monasteries --- Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Lamaist shrines --- Shrines --- Lamaist pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Buddhist --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Buddhist temples --- History. --- T︠S︡︡ybikov, G. T︠S︡. --- Цыбиков, Г. Ц. --- T︠S︡ybikov, Gonbochzhab T︠S︡ėbekovich, --- Цыбиков, Гонбочжаб Цэбекович, --- T︠S︡ybikov, G. T︠S︡. --- T︠S︡ybikov, Gombozhab T︠S︡ėbekovich, --- Цыбиков, Гомбожаб Цэбекович, --- Tsybikoff, G. Ts., --- Travel --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Lhasa (China) --- Lhasa --- Lassa (China) --- Lasa (China) --- Lhassa (China) --- Hlassa (China) --- La-sa shih (China) --- La-sa (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü La-sa shih (China) --- Lhasa Shi (China) --- 拉萨 (China) --- ラサ市 (China) --- Rasa-shi (China) --- ラサ (China) --- Rasa (China) --- Лхаса (China) --- Lkhasa (China) --- 拉萨市 (China) --- Lasa Shi (China) --- Tibetan Autonomous Region (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu (China) --- 西藏自治区 (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü jen min cheng fu (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) --- TAR (China) --- Xizang Autonomous Region (China) --- Bod Raṅ-skyoṅ-ljoṅs (China) --- Bod (China) --- Sitsang (China) --- Tibet (China) --- Thibet (China) --- Tibet-Chamdo (China) --- Tübüt (China) --- Xizang (China) --- Tibet --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs. --- Description and travel. --- Тибет (China) --- Tu̇vd (China) --- Tȯvȯd (China) --- 西藏 (China)