Isaac Jacob Schmidt was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labours to Bible translation.
Isaac Jacob Schmidt
Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Stonen tablets with prayers in Tibetan at a Temple in McLeod Ganj
Pechas, scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, at a library in Dharamsala, India