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|bio=Ngawang Wangyal (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་དབང་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: ''Ngag-dbang Dbang-rgyal''), aka Sogpo (Mongolian) Wangyal, popularly known as "Geshe Wangyal" and "America's first lama," was a Buddhist lama and scholar of Kalmyk origin who was born in the Astrakhan province in southeast Russia sometime in 1901. He developed the code for the CIA that aided the Dalai Lam's escape from Tibet, spearheaded a two decade long undertaking to lift political proscriptions on US visits by the Dalai Lama, opened the first Tibetan Buddhist dharma center in the West, and trained the first generation of Tibetan Buddhist scholars in America. He is considered a "founding figure" of Buddhism in the West.
|bio=Ngawang Wangyal (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་དབང་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: ''Ngag-dbang Dbang-rgyal''), aka Sogpo (Mongolian) Wangyal, popularly known as "Geshe Wangyal" and "America's first lama," was a Buddhist lama and scholar of Kalmyk origin who was born in the Astrakhan province in southeast Russia sometime in 1901. He developed the code for the CIA that aided the Dalai Lam's escape from Tibet, spearheaded a two decade long undertaking to lift political proscriptions on US visits by the Dalai Lama, opened the first Tibetan Buddhist dharma center in the West, and trained the first generation of Tibetan Buddhist scholars in America. He is considered a "founding figure" of Buddhism in the West.
(Read more [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang_Wangyal here])
|PersonType=Authors of English Works; Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
|PersonType=Authors of English Works; Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
|images=File:Wangyal Geshe Rigpawiki.jpg
|yearbirth=1901/10/15
|yearbirth=1901/10/15
|yeardeath=1983/01/30
|yeardeath=1983/01/30
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== Writings ==
== Writings ==
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Wangyal Geshe Rigpawiki.jpg
PersonType Category:Authors of English Works
Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
FirstName / namefirst Ngawang
LastName / namelast Wangyal
MainNamePhon Geshe Wangyal
SortName Wangyal, Ngawang
bio Ngawang Wangyal (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་དབང་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: Ngag-dbang Dbang-rgyal), aka Sogpo (Mongolian) Wangyal, popularly known as "Geshe Wangyal" and "America's first lama," was a Buddhist lama and scholar of Kalmyk origin who was born in the Astrakhan province in southeast Russia sometime in 1901. He developed the code for the CIA that aided the Dalai Lam's escape from Tibet, spearheaded a two decade long undertaking to lift political proscriptions on US visits by the Dalai Lama, opened the first Tibetan Buddhist dharma center in the West, and trained the first generation of Tibetan Buddhist scholars in America. He is considered a "founding figure" of Buddhism in the West.

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YearBirth 1901/10/15
YearDeath 1983/01/30
BornIn Astrakhan province, Russia
IsInGyatsa No
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Names

Wylie: Dge bshes dbang rgyal
Thub bstan dbang rgyal

Other Transliterations in use:
Geshe Wangyal
Thupten Wangyal
Wangyal, Thupten

Dates

birth 1902
death 1983

Affiliation

Geluk
Bka'-gdams-pa
Dga'-ldan-pa

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Main Teachers

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Writings