Luciano Petech 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 1984. He was a student of the Italian explorer, academic, and scholar Giuseppe Tucci.
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Petech c. 1970![A delegation from the Western Regions, seen in Beijing by Johan Nieuhof in 1656, who took them for emissaries of the Moghuls of India. Petech thinks the delegation are visitors from Turfan in Moghulistan instead.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Nieuhof-p-189-Mogolsche-gezant-Lach-van-Kley-plate-315.jpg/1280px-Nieuhof-p-189-Mogolsche-gezant-Lach-van-Kley-plate-315.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
A delegation from the Western Regions, seen in Beijing by Johan Nieuhof in 1656, who took them for emissaries of the Moghuls of India. Petech thinks the delegation are visitors from Turfan in Moghulistan instead.[1]
From left: Lionello Lanciotti, Geshe Jampel Singe, Lobsang Samten, Namkhai Norbu and Luciano Petech at IsMEO, Rome, in 1961.Writers from Italy 6
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deceased
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Lived 1914 to 2010 · aged 96
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