- David Tibet
David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting, 5 March, 1960 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only constant member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo. He was given the name "Tibet" by Genesis P-Orridge, and in January 2005 he announced that he would revert to the name David Michael. - Kartal Tibet
Kartal Tibet is a Turkish actor and film director. Tibet is best known for his swashbuckler roles, especially that of the title character in the "Karaoğlan" and "Tarkan" film series. - Tenzin Gyatso
Tenzin Gyatso (born 6 July 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. As such, he is often referred to in Western media simply as the Dalai Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of sixteen children of a farming family in the Tibetan province of Amdo, he was proclaimed the "tulku" (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of two. On 17 November 1950, at the age of fifteen, … - Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava (Ch: 蓮華生上師, Pinyin: "Lian Hua Sheng Shang Shi"; Tib: "Pema Jungne", Wylie: "padma 'byung gnas"), in Sanskrit meaning "lotus-born", is said to have brought Tantric Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th century. In Bhutan and Tibet he is better known as Guru Rinpoche ("Precious Master") where followers of the Nyingma school regard him as the second Buddha. - Milarepa
Jetsun Milarepa, (c. 1052-c. 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets, a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu (Bka'-brgyud) school of Tibetan Buddhism. The facts of his life as they are popularly known come from the enormously popular romanticized account in the biography the "Mi-la-rnam-thar" by Gtsang-smyon he-ru-ka rus-pa'i-rgyan-can (1452-1507), … - Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. Heinrich Harrer was born in Hüttenberg, Carinthia to a postal worker. From 1933 to 1938 Harrer studied geography and sports at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz. Harrer became a member of the traditional student corporation ATV Graz. He was designated to participate in the combined Alpine skiing competition at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. - Robert Thurman
Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 4, 1941) is an American Buddhist writer and academic. He is the Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. He also is the co-founder and president of Tibet House New York and currently holds the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. Thurman was born in New York City to Elizabeth Dean Farrar, a stage actress, and Beverly Reid Thurman, Jr., … - Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang or Liu Hsiang (1890-1938) was one of the warlords controlling Sichuan province during the Warlord era of 20th century China. During the period from 1927-1938, Sichuan was in the hands of five warlords: Liu Xiang, Yang Sen, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, and Tian Songyao. No one warlord had enough power to take on all the others at once, so many small battles occurred, pitting one warlord against another. - Sogyal Rinpoche
Sogyal Rinpoche is a Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition. He has been teaching for over 30 years and continues to travel widely in Europe, America, Australia and Asia. He is also the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa—an international network of over 100 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world—and the author of the best-selling book "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying", … - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (b. April 25 1989) is the eleventh Panchen Lama. He was born in Lhari County, Tibet and was named by the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, on May 14, 1995. The government of the People's Republic of China then removed him from Tibet and installed Gyancain Norbu (Erdini Qoigyijabu) as its 11th Panchen Lama. Following the unexpected death of the 10th Panchen Lama in 1989, the search for his reincarnation quickly became mired in political controversy. - Giuseppe Tucci
Giuseppe Tucci (Macerata 5 June 1894-San Polo dei Cavalieri (Rome) 5 April 1984), was an Italian scholar of oriental cultures, specialising in Tibet and history of Buddhism. He was fluent in several European languages, Sanskrit, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, Chinese and Tibetan and he taught at the University of Rome La Sapienza until his death. - Dudjom Rinpoche
Dudjom Rinpoche was the supreme leader of the Nyingmapa order of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in Tibet in 1904, and died on January 17th, 1987. He was a noted terton and a tulku, considered to be the reincarnation of Dudjom Lingpa. He wrote an extensive account of the teachings of the Nyingmapa lineage, which is available in english translation. - Kelsang Gyatso
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, Gelug teacher (scholar) and author of Buddhist books. He was born in Tibet in 1931 and ordained at the age of eight. In 1976 he was invited by Lama Thubten Yeshe, a Gelug Tulku, to teach at his FPMT center Manjushri Institute, Ulverston, England. After a schism with the FPMT he founded the New Kadampa Tradition in 1991. His teachings have sparked significant controversy. - Sven Hedin
Sven Anders Hedin (February 19, 1865 - November 26, 1952) was a Swedish explorer, geographer and geopolitician. Hedin was born in Stockholm. Between 1886 and 1892 he studied geology, mineralogy, zoology, and Latin in Stockholm, Uppsala, Berlin, and Halle. He was a student of Ferdinand von Richthofen. Between his graduation in 1892 and 1935 he led several expeditions to Central Asia. In 1902 he was the last Swede ever to be ennobled with a hereditary title. - Ma Jian
Ma Jian (b. August 18 1953) is a Chinese writer. He was born in Qingdao on the August 18 1953. In 1986, he moved to Hong Kong after a clampdown in which some his works were banned. In 1997, he moved to Germany, and in 1999 he again moved to England. He now lives in London with his partner and translator, Flora Drew. Ma has most recently come to the attention of the English-speaking world with his story collection "Stick Out Your Tongue", … - Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön is a fully ordained Buddhist nun in the Tibetan vajrayana tradition, and a teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is the ability to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life. She is one of the most successful interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism for westerners, noted for her approachable and down-to-earth teaching style. Pema Chödrön is a prolific author and has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, … - Jetsun Pema
Jetsun Pema is the living sister of the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, born in the Tibetan village of Amdo. In the 1997 movie "Seven Years in Tibet" starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, a film based on the book by Heinrich Harrer, Jetsun portrayed her real-life mother in the film as the mother of the young Dalai Lama. - Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
Lithang Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche (born 1950, in Lithang Thil, Tibet) is a Buddhist leader from eastern Tibet. He was convicted of carrying out bomb attacks by the Chinese authorities and sentenced to death in December 2002 along with Lobsang Dhondup, a relative of his. Lobsang was executed almost immediately, marking the first execution of a Tibetan for political crimes in 20 years. The Rinpoche was granted a two year reprieve. - Yungchen Lhamo
Yungchen Lhamo is a Tibetan singer living in exile in New York City. Lhamo's international success as a Tibetan singer is unprecendented. She has toured the world, singing unaccompanied a combination of songs of her own composition and traditional Buddhist chants and mantras. She has performed with artist like Annie Lennox, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow, etc, bringing her traditions to new audiences. - Adam Yauch
Adam Nathaniel Yauch, also known as MCA and Nathaniel Hörnblowér, is a founding member of hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys. Yauch was born August 5, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. Adam is also an only child. Yauch went to Bard College before dropping out. Yauch learned to play the bass, and played his first show with the Beastie Boys—then still playing hardcore punk in the vein of Reagan Youth—on his 17th birthday, … - Thrangu Rinpoche
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 reincarnation in his particular line. His full name and title is the "Very Venerable Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Tulku, Karma Lodrö Lungrik Maway Senge". "Khenchen" denotes great scholarly accomplishment, and the term "Rinpoche" is an honorific title commonly afforded to Tibetan lamas. - Alexandra David-Néel
Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David was a French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels. Her teachings influenced beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and philosopher Alan Watts. - Sakya Trizin
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 the Köhn family, who around 750, when Khön Jekundag was a minister of Trisong Detsen, got into contact with Buddhism and who were taught by Padmasambhava. The family were viceroys of the Tsang province of Tibet at the time. After they received the teaching of masters like Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, … - Lobsang Rampa
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 Tibetan lama. The name Tuesday relates to a claim in one of his books that all upper-class Tibetans were named after the day on which they were born. - Yeshe Tsogyal
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 figure of enlightenment (dakini) in Tibetan Buddhism. She lived from 757 to 817, and is most identified as the mystic consort of the great Indian tantric teacher Padmasambhava ("the Lotus-Born One"), who was invited to Tibet by the Emperor Trisong Detsen. :From the mouth of a lotus was born :The swift goddess, … - Thubten Yeshe
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 the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (1975). He followed the Gelugpa tradition, and was considered unconventional in his teaching style. Lama Yeshe was born near the Tibetan town of Tolung Dechen, but was sent to Sera Monastery in Lhasa at the age of six. He received full ordination at the age of 28 from Kyabje Ling Rinpoche. - Longchenpa
Longchenpa or Longchen Rabjampa (1308 - 1364 possibly 1369) was a major teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Along with Sakya Pandita and Je Tsongkhapa, he is commonly recognized as one of the three main manifestations of Manjushri to have taught in Central Tibet. His major work is the "Seven Treasures", which encapsulates the previous 600 years of Buddhist thought in Tibet. - Paula Dobriansky
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky (born September 14, 1955) is a neo-conservative politician, pundit, and author, and graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and of Harvard University. She currently is the Under Secretary of State for Democracy & Global Affairs, a position in which she was appointed 1 May 2001 by US President George W. Bush. - Joseph Rock
Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he became an authority on the flora of these islands. From 1922–1949 he spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan, Sichuan, southwest Gansu and eastern Tibet. Many Asian plants that he collected can be seen in the Arnold Arboretum. - Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra was born in North India in 1969. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in commerce from Allahabad University before earning his Master of Arts degree in English literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. In 1992, he moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where he began to contribute literary essays and reviews to "The Indian Review of Books", "The India Magazine", and the newspaper "The Pioneer". - Peter Aufschnaiter
Peter Aufschnaiter (November 2, 1899-October 19, 1973) was an Austrian mountaineer, agricultural scientist, geographer and cartographer. - Tarthang Tulku
Tarthang Tulku is a Tibetan teacher (lama) in the Nyingma tradition who lives in America, where he works to preserve the art and culture of Tibet. He oversees various projects including Dharma Publishing, Yeshe-De, Tibetan Aid Project, and the construction of the Odiyan Copper Mountain Mandala. He is probably the first lama of the Nyingma lineage to teach in the United States. Tarthang Tulku introduced Kum Nye into the West, … - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpei Dorje (Wylie Rang 'byung rig pa'i rdo rje) was spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in Denkhok in the Dergé district of Kham (Eastern Tibet), near the Yangtze River. - Erik Weihenmayer
Erik Weihenmayer (born 1968) is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002. His story was covered in a Time article in June 2001 titled "Blind Faith". He is author of "Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye can See", his autobiography. Erik is an acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, … - Altan Khan
Altan Khan (Chinese: 俺答汗, Mongolian: Алтан Хаан), whose given name was Anda, was the de facto ruler of the Right Wing of the Mongols and exercised his power over the whole of Mongolia. He was the second son of the Bars Bolud Jinong and a grandson of Dayan Khan, who had re-unified the Mongolian nobility in an attempt to regain the glory of Yuan Dynasty. - Princess Wencheng
The Chinese Princess Wencheng, was a niece of the powerful Emperor Taizong of Tang of Tang China, who left China in 640, according to records, arriving the next year in Tibet to marry the thirty-seven year old Songtsän Gampo, who lived around Lake Koko Nor in the northeast corner of Tibet, along an important trade route into China. - Fosco Maraini
Fosco Maraini (november 15 1912 - june 8 2004) was an Italian ethnologist, photographer, film-maker, mountaineer, writer, poet and professor. Maraini was born in Florence. Perhaps best known for his photographic work in Tibet and Japan, Maraini also photographed extensively in the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges of Central Asia, in Southeast Asia and in the south of his native Italy. - Prithvi Narayan Shah
Prithvi Narayan Shah, King of Nepal was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah (1559 - 1570 A.D.), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha. Prithvi Narayan Shah succeeded his father King Nara Bhupal Shah to the throne of Gorkha in 1743 A.D. King Prithvi Narayan Shah's successful entry began with the union of Nuwakot, which lies between Kathmandu and Gorkha, in 1744 A.D. After Nuwakot, … - Claude Arpi
Claude Arpi is French-born author and journalist who lives in Auroville, India. He is the author of "The Fate of Tibet" (Har-Anand Publications), and several articles on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations. - Naomi Duguid
Naomi Duguid is a Canadian food writer, best known for her cookbooks co-written with her husband Jeffrey Alford. Duguid was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1950. She went on to attend Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and proceeded through law school. After travelling around the world Naomi met Jeffrey Alford in Tibet in 1985 and the two were soon married. She quit her job as a lawyer and went into writing cookbooks in 1995.
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