Bidia Dandaron Writer

Bidia Dandaron (Vidyadhara, Russian: Бидия Дандарович Дандарон) (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.

Personal facts

Birth date	December 28, 1914
Birth place	Buryatia , Russian Empire , Kizhinga
Nationality	Russian language
Date of death	October 26, 1974
Place of death	Buryatia , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Vydrino
Education	Saint Petersburg