Kazi Dawa Samdup
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 102 years ago |
| Date of birth | June 17,1868 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Sikkim |
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| Date of died | March 22,1923 |
| Died | Kolkata |
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| Residence | Sikkim |
| India | |
| Other name | Kazi Zla-ba-bsam-'grub་ |
| Job | Translator |
| Education | Bhutia Boarding School, Darjeeling |
| Books | The Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| English-Tibetan Dictionary: Vocabulary of 20, 000 Words and Their Tibetan Equivalents | |
| An English-Tibetan Dictionary: Containing a Vocabulary of Approximately Twenty Thousand Words with Their Tibetan Equivalents | |
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| ID | 1573022 |
Kazi Dawa Samdup Life story
"Lama" Kazi Dawa Samdup is 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.