Dieter Schuh

Dieter Shoe ( born December 14, 1942 in Delme ) is a German Tibetologist and entrepreneurs.

Life

Shoe doctorate in 1972 at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn and habilitated in 1976. Since 1978, he is an adjunct professor of Tibetology at Bonn. Since 2007 he has retired.

In addition to his academic career shoe was an entrepreneur. Since 1983 he and his son Temba lead a company as a property developer, real estate and asset managers, which is based in Halle since the early 1990s. In addition, he started on 1 March 1996, the weekly magazine New Hallesches Tageblatt, which he dissolved after a few weeks. From 1995 to 2009 he was a councilor in the city of Halle in Saxony -Anhalt, first for the SPD, later for the Independent Citizens' List Hall.

For research trips he stayed several times in Tibet. In addition, he has published many publications. In various publications, he worked with other Tibetologists, including Luciano Petech, Christopher Beckwith and Peter -law. He also edited several books editorial. In 2007 he developed the book Tibet - dream and reality with a DVD of the documentation snow land of Tibet, the reports on his trip to Tibet together with ZDF.

For his 65th birthday, the anniversary publication Tibetan studies: edited Festschrift for Dieter shoe on his 65th birthday, with contributions from various other Tibetologists. He lives in Switzerland.

Shoe is the CEO of IITBS GmbH ( International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH).

Tibet Encyclopaedia

Led by Dieter shoe IITBS operates the Project Tibet Encyclopaedia. Editor of the website is shoe, employees are Wolfgang Bertsch, Christoph Cuppers, Franz -Karl Ehrhard, Karl -Heinz Ever thing, Petra H. Maurer and Peter -law. The declared aim of the project is to make the public on the Internet " on a scientific basis information about the Tibetan culture, history and current developments of the Tibetan highlands " accessible. On the website ( transcription ) is used by Tibetan names, place names and other words in the Latin transcription according to Wylie for the transcription. The transcription of place names follows the maps of Tibet Map Institute. The definition of personal names follows its own, developed for German -language system.