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== Full Name ==
 
John Vincent Bellezza
 
 
== Affiliation ==
 
 
== Education ==
 
 
== Other Information ==
 
John Vincent Bellezza is a scholar, writer, explorer and pilgrim, and is widely recognized as one of the foremost specialists in the archaeology and cultural history of Upper Tibet. He has lived in the high Himalayan region for over a quarter of a century.
 
 
He is a senior research fellow at the Tibet Center at University of Virginia, Bellazza has written extensively on the nomads, history and culture of the Upper Tibet. He is credited with the discovery of hundreds of pre-Buddhist archaeological sites, describing the monuments and the people that built them in great detail.
 
[[http://www.uvatibetcenter.org/?page_id=2436 |Source]]
 
 
c/o Professor David Germano<br>
 
PO Box 400126<br>
 
University of Virginia<br>
 
Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA<br>
 
Email: jbellezza@hotmail.com<br>
 
Website: www.tibetarchaeology.com<br>
 
 
For more detailed information and CV: [http://www.tibetarchaeology.com/ Tibetan Archaeology (Source Accessed Jan 19, 2012)]
 
 
== Publications ==
 
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John Vincent Bellezza is an archaeologist and cultural historian specializing in the pre-Buddhist heritage of Tibet and the Western Himalaya. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tibet Center, University of Virginia, and the University of Bern, Switzerland, and has lived in high Asia for three decades. Since 1994, Bellezza has comprehensively surveyed ancient monuments and rock art on the uppermost reaches of the Tibetan plateau. He has also extensively studied archaic rituals, myths and narratives in Bon and Old Tibetan literature. In addition to nine books, Bellezza has written numerous academic and popular articles on topics pertaining to early Tibet. He is the first non-Tibetan to have explored both the geographic and ritual sources of each of the four great rivers that emerge from the Mount Kailas region. He also visited most major islands and headlands in the great lakes of Upper Tibet. Bellezza has also traveled widely on foot in the Western Himalayan regions of India and Pakistan. (Source Accessed Feb 24, 2023)

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