Bidia Dandaron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bidia Dandaron

Russian Buddhist writer and Tibetan studies scholar

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1914

Place of Birth: Russian Empire

Date of Death: 26-Oct-1974

Profession: translator, linguist, non-fiction writer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Bidia Dandaron (Vidyadhara, Russian: ????? ?????????? ????????) (December 28, 1914, Soorkhoi, Kizhinga, Buryatia — October 26, 1974, Vydrino, Buryatia) was a major Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR.
He also worked in academic Tibetology, contributed to the Tibetan-Russian Dictionary (1959) and made several translations from Tibetan into Russian.
He is mostly remembered as a Buddhist teacher whose students in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania continued both religious and scholarly work, and as an early Buddhist author who wrote on European philosophy, history, and science within a Buddhist framework.
Among his students were Alexander Piatigorsky and Linnart Mäll.