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in 1996, where he rediscovered in the former monastery Sekar Guthok forgotten murals from the 13th century; and in 1997 again to southern Tibet, where he discovered in the Pa-Lha-Puk
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In 2009, he led the Fifth
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In the years 2000 to 2005 he researched and documented most of the relevant cultural monuments of the
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from the 3rd century AD in the ruined city Endere, and the rediscovery of a
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From 2013 to 2019 he explored on six journeys the
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language and Brahmi script, the discovery of a very rare stone inscription in
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China's Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism
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