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Facts

Also Known As Mar-pa Lotsawa
Born 1012 • Tibet
Died 1096 (aged 84) • Tibet
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Rin-chen-bzang-po
Buddhist monk
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’Brom-ston
Tibetan Buddhist monk
Milarepa
Milarepa
Tibetan Buddhist master
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Bu-ston
Tibetan Buddhist scholar
Xuanzang
Xuanzang
Buddhist monk
Ram Mohan Roy
Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious leader
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Faxian
Chinese Buddhist monk
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Kumarajiva
Buddhist scholar
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Paramārtha
Indian Buddhist missionary and translator
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Dao’an
Chinese Buddhist monk
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava
Buddhist mystic
14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhist monk
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Chögyam Trungpa
Tibetan abbot
Srong-brtsan-sgam-po
Srong-brtsan-sgam-po
king of Tibet
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’Brog-mi
Tibetan monk
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Sergius of Resaina
Syrian theologian
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Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist