Naropa

Naropa

male, deceased (1100)
Naropa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: "Nadaprada", 1016-1100) was an Indian Buddhist mystic and monk, the pupil of Tilopa and brother, or some sources say...
Tilopa

Tilopa

male, deceased (1069)
Tilopa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: Talika, 988 - 1069) was born in either Chativavo (Chittagong), Bengal or Jagora, Bengal. He was a tantric practitioner...
Giuseppe Tucci

Giuseppe Tucci

male, deceased (1984)
Giuseppe Tucci (Macerata 5 June 1894-San Polo dei Cavalieri (Rome) 5 April 1984), was an Italian scholar of oriental cultures, specialising in...
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

male, 70 years old
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, one of the foremost living Dzogchen masters, was born in Derge, Kham (eastern Tibet) on 8 December 1938. At the a...
L. A. Waddell

L. A. Waddell

male, deceased (1938)
Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 - 1938) was a British explorer, collector in Tibet, and author. Waddell traveled extensively in...

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

male, deceased (1842)
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, also known as Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, born Csoma Sándor (March 27, 1784 - April 11, 1842), was a Hungarian philologist and or...
Arjia Rinpoche

Arjia Rinpoche

male
Arjia Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche' is the Abbot of Kumbum Monastery in Amdo, one of the six great centers of Buddhism in Tibet. Born to Mongolian...

Christopher Beckwith

male, 64 years old
Christopher I. Beckwith (born 1945) is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his Ph.D....
Isaac Jacob Schmidt

Isaac Jacob Schmidt

male, deceased (1847)
Issac Jacob Schmidt (1779-1847) was an orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Born in Amsterdam, he spent most of his career in St....

Li Fanggui

male
Li Fanggui or Fang-Kuei Li (Wade-Giles: Li Fang-Kuei, Fang-Kuei Li) (20 August 1902-21 August 1987) was a Chinese American linguist. Li was one of...