Josef Kolmaš
{{Short description|Czech translator (1933–2021)}}
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| occupation = Sinologist, tibetologist, translator
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Minzu University of China
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Tibetology
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Josef Kolmaš (6 August 1933 in Těmice – 9 February 2021) was a leading Czech sinologist and tibetologist.
Career
He was a translator and world-renowned expert on the history of Sino-Tibetan relations, a long-time researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and its director from 1994 to 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://magazin.aktualne.cz/kultura/literatura/zemrel-prukopnik-ceske-tibetologie-josef-kolmas-nekrolog/r~47e145426bce11ebb115ac1f6b220ee8/|title=Zemřel průkopník české tibetologie Kolmaš, jako mladíka jej terorizovala SNB|date=February 10, 2021|website=Aktuálně.cz}}{{Cite web|url=https://denikn.cz/minuta/559007/|title=Zemřel průkopník československé tibetologie Josef Kolmaš|date=February 10, 2021|website=Deník N}}
Works
- Tibet and Imperial China: A Survey of Sino-Tibetan Relations Up to the End of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912 1967
- Iconography of the Derge Kanjur and Tanjur 1978 {{ISBN|9788179360019}}
- Buddhistická svatá písma1995 {{ISBN|80-85809-23-0}}
- Vzpomínka na Tibet 1997 {{ISBN|80-85809-73-7}}
- Suma tibetského písemnictví 2004 {{ISBN|80-7203-592-4}}
- Tibet: Dějiny a duchovní kultura 2004 {{ISBN|80-7203-627-0}}
- Klasické tibetské příběhy: Mysterium o životě a zmrtvýchvstání krásné paní Nangsy. O ptácích a opicích. Zrcadlo králů 2009 {{ISBN|978-80-88969-42-6}}
- Malá encyklopedie tibetského náboženství a mytologie 2009 {{ISBN|978-80-7277-394-7}}
- Slovník tibetské literatury 2010 {{ISBN|978-80-7277-453-1}}
- Tibet 2011 {{ISBN|978-80-7277-483-8}}
- Země na střeše světa: Z dějin poznávání Tibetu 2011 {{ISBN|978-80-88969-56-3}}
- Pojednání o věcech tibetských 2014 {{ISBN|978-80-7429-386-3}}
- Pojednání o věcech čínských 2015 {{ISBN|978-80-7429-629-1}}
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