Elena De Rossi Filibeck is a writer on

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

an subjects. She graduated in East Asian History under Professor

Luciano Petech Luciano Petech (8 June 1914, Trieste – 29 September 2010, Rome) was an Italian scholar of Himalayan history and the early relations between Tibet, Nepal and Italy. He was Chair of History of Eastern Asia at the University of Rome from 1955 to 1 ...

in 1971 at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university l ...

. Since 1980 she has been a researcher at the Department of Oriental Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Sapienza University of Rome, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the same university. Her publications cover many aspects of Tibetan textual studies, most notably from

Tabo Monastery Tabo Monastery (or Tabo Chos-Khor Monastery) is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, northern India. It was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan year of the Fire Ape by the Tibetan Buddhist ''lotsawa'' (translator) Rinche ...

. Since 1980 she has dedicated her professional life to cataloguing the Tucci Tibetan Fund texts, numbering more than a thousand. The first volume of the catalogue was published in 1994, and in the preface Petech praises her achievements and speaks warmly of her as a friend.Filibeck 1994, preface

Bibliography (selection)

*1977: ''Testi Tibetani riguardanti i Gorkha, Memorie dell'Accademia dei Lincei'', Rome *1988: ''Two Tibetan Guide Books to Ti se and La phyi , Monumenta Tibetica Historica'', VGH Wissenschaftsverlag, Bonn *1994: ''Catalogue of the Tucci Tibetan Fund in the Library of IsMEO'', Rome, volume I, *2003: ''Catalogue of the Tucci Tibetan Fund in the Library of IsAO'', Rome, volume II,

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