- male
- Venerable Geshe Sonam Rinchen, also known as Geshe Dawa, was born in Trehor region of Kham in Eastern Tibet in 1933. In 1945, he joined Dhargyey...
- female, 78 years old
- Dervla Murphy (born November 28, 1931, Ireland) is a female touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books.
- female, 73 years old
- Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Topazia, an artist who belonged to an aristocractic Sicilian family (the Alliata di...
- male, deceased (1733)
- Ippolito Desideri (21 December 1684, Pistoia, Italy - 14 April 1733, Roma, Italy) was an Italian Jesuit, missionary in Tibet, and the first...
- male, deceased (1989)
- Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen was the 10th Panchen Lama of Gelug Buddhism. He was often referred to simply as Choekyi Gyaltsen (which ca...
- male, 71 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...
- male
- Geshe Tashi Tsering (born 1937) is a highly respected Tibetan teacher, in the Gelug tradition, who has lived and taught in the West for many years....
- male, 70 years old
- Chöje Akong Rinpoche is a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and a founder of the Samye Ling Monastery. He was born in 1939, near R...
- male, deceased (1990)
- Marco Pallis (1895-1989) was a British-born mystic, mountaineer, and author with close affiliations to the Traditionalist School. He wrote...
- male, deceased (1972)
- Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (May 2, 1928-July 21, 1972) was the third Dragon King of Bhutan. He began to open Bhutan to the outside world, began...
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