Thrangu Rinpoche

Thrangu Rinpoche

male, 76 years old
Thrangu Rinpoche was born in 1933 in Kham, Tibet. He is a prominent tulku (reincarnate lama) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, the ninth...

Alexandra David-Néel

female, deceased (1969)
Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David was a French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer, most known fo...
Sakya Trizin

Sakya Trizin

male, 64 years old
Sakya Trizin is the head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. The spiritual leadership of the Sakya school is controlled by the descendants of...
Lobsang Rampa

Lobsang Rampa

male, deceased (1981)
Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, born Cyril Henry Hoskin, was a British writer who claimed that his body had been taken over by the spirit of a deceased...
Yeshe Tsogyal

Yeshe Tsogyal

female, deceased (817)
Yeshe Tsogyel (rhymes with "may say so well"), also known in the Nyingma tradition as the Great Bliss Queen, is a semi-mythical female deity or...
Thubten Yeshe

Thubten Yeshe

male, deceased (1984) (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935-1984) was a Tibetan lama and tulku who, while exiled in Nepal, co-founded Kopan Monastery (1969) and the Foundation for...
Longchenpa

Longchenpa

male, deceased (1363)
Longchenpa or Longchen Rabjampa (1308 - 1364 possibly 1369) was a major teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Along with Sakya Pandita...
Paula Dobriansky

Paula Dobriansky

female, 54 years old
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky (born September 14, 1955) is a neo-conservative politician, pundit, and author, and graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School...
Joseph Rock

Joseph Rock

male, deceased (1962)
Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to...
Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra

male
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in commerce from Allahabad University before earning his...