DANDARON, Bidija Dandarovič. Kižinga, Buryatia 14.12.(28.12.)1914 — Vydrino Camp, Buryatia 26.10.1974. Russian Buryat Lama, Tibetologist and Buddhist Scholar. Son of Dorži Badmaev, a Tantric practitioner, and Bal’žima Abudueva. Educated in Kižinga and Kjahta, learned early Sanskrit and Tibetan (from his father and from Lama Lubsan Sandan Cydenov). In 1921 he…
DAMES, Mansel Longworth. Bath 1850 — Crichmere, Guildford, Surrey 8.1.1922. British Civil Servant, Baluchi Scholar and Historian of India. Son of Captain George Longworth Dames (1808–1860, of Irish background) and Caroline Amelia Brunswick (1821–1918). Passed the I.C.S. examination in 1868 and 1870 joined Bengal Civil Service, first posted to the…
DAMANT, Guybon Henry. Cowes, Isle of Wight 9.5.1846 — Khonoma (now in Kohima dt.), Nagaland 14.10.1879. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India (1869-79). Son of Henry James Damant (1816–1901), a lawyer, and Elizabeth Johnson Knight (1823–1906). Educated at St. Paul’s School (or Merchant Taylor’s School?) in London. Studies from…
DALTON, Edward Tuite (or Tuite-Dalton). Ireland 17.8.1815 — Cannes 30.12.1880. British (Irish) Colonial Officer and Ethnologist in India. Son of music composer Edward Tuite Dalton (1783–1821) and Olivia Stevenson (1792–1834). Educated at Harrow. “Entered the Army, 1835; in expeditions against frontier tribes of Assam 1839-40, and 1842, commanded an expedition…
DALGADO, Sebastião Rodolfo. Assagão village near Mapuça (Mapusa), Goa 8.5.1855 — Lisbon 4.4.1922. Monsenhor. Indo-Portuguese Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Born in a Brahman family, his ancestors were called Desai. Son of Ambrose Dalgado, a landowner in Bardez, and Florinda Rosa de Souza. School in Assagão and Mapuça, Goa, studies of…
DAHLMANN, Joseph. Koblenz 14.10.1861 — Tokyo 22.6.1928. Father. S.J. German Indologist, later in Japan. Son of a tailor, Johann Simon Dahlmann (1831–1905), and Catharina Schulten (1827–1892), educated in 1873-78 at Feldkirchen Jesuit College, joined the S.J. in the age of 17 in 1878. Studies in the Netherlands, the U.K. and…
DAHLKE, Paul Wilhelm Eduard. Osterode, Ostpreussen (now Ostróda, Poland) 25.1.1865 — Berlin-Frohnau 29.2.1928. German Bauddha, Physician in Berlin. The eldest child of a civil servant, August Dahlke and Wilhelmine Reinholz, a poor family. Gymnasium in Osnabrück, Hannover and Frankfurt a.M., from 1883 studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in homeopathy.…
DAALEN, Leendert (Leen) Antonius van. Schemed, Groningen 30.4.1939 — Hilversum 1.10.1993. Dutch Indologist. Studied Classical Philology at Utrecht (M.A. 1966), then Indology (M.A. 1970) under Gonda. Ph.D. 1980 Utrecht (Bodewitz) with a thesis, which called much international discussion, though mostly deemed unsuccesful. In 1966-92 Lecturer of Sanskrit at Utrecht, moved…
BAER, Emil. Rifferswil in Loo, Canton Zürich 23.12.1884 — Dielsdorf, Canton Zürich 8.11.1945. Swiss Priest and Student of Indology. Son of the factory owner Theodor Baer and Anna Leuthold. School at home village, in Affoltern and in Zürich, from 1906 studies at Zürich: theology, classical languages, Arabic and Sanskrit (under…
CYBORAN, Leon. Cracow 30.8.1928 — Warsaw 8.6.1977. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lublin. Born in Cracow, moved in 1946 to Wrocław. Studied philosophy at Wrocław in 1948-52. In the age of 26 lived at a monastery, but never gave vows. He had early become interested in Yoga, and studied then Indology…