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Kazi Dawa Samdup

Indian translator

Died when: 54 years 278 days (657 months)
Star Sign: Gemini

 

Kazi Dawa Samdup

Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup (17 June 1868 – 22 March 1922) was now best known as one of the first translators of important works of Tibetan Buddhism into the English language and a pioneer central to the transmission of Buddhism in the West.

From 1910 he also played a significant role in relations between British India and Tibet.

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