Andreas Gruschke
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Andreas Gruschke (born on April 16th, 1960 in Tengen-Blumenfeld (Germany) is a German author, photographer and Tibet researcher. His scientific background is that of a geographer, sinologist und ethnologist.
Since 1987, Gruschke works as a free-lance writer and picture-journalist with the main topics Tibet, Himalayas, Silk Road and East Asia, holds lectures and seminars at his hometown Freiburg and other places. After finishing his university studies, he went on numerous research trips to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Central Asia, yet most of them led him to the highland of Tibet.
Gruschke published numerous books and articles mainly on Tibetan culture, among them pioneering works for monasteries in the East Tibetan regions Amdo and Kham. Other books and reports deal with Korea and the Himalayas and China, as well as two picture albums about his homeland: the Hegau and the upper Rhine. His current research is about nomads in the eastern Tibetan region of Yushu (northern Kham).
[edit] Works
Works by and about Andreas Gruschke in the German National Library catalogue
- The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Amdo, 2 vols., Bangkok 2001
- The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Kham, 2 vols., Bangkok 2004 ff.
