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== Full Name ==
 
Kőrösi Csoma Sándor – or as he signed his English letters, Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. ([http://csoma.mtak.hu/en/csoma-elete.htm Source Accessed October 19, 2011])
 
 
[[File:Korosi Csoma Sandor A Magyar Bodhiszattva_TsadraLibrary_Scanned October 19, 2011.jpg|200px]]
 
 
== Affiliation ==
 
 
== Education ==
 
[http://csoma.mtak.hu/en/csoma-elete.htm See his detailed biography here (includes bibliography) - Source Accessed October 19, 2011]
 
 
Csoma de Kőrös' education and biographical information are rather complex and the above website does an excellent job of describing his life. [[User:Marcus|Marcus]] 12:08, 19 October 2011 (EDT)
 
 
== Other Information ==
 
Kőrösi Csoma Sándor – or as he signed his English letters, Alexander Csoma de Kőrös – was born in 1784, or, according to the most recent research, perhaps in 1787 or 1788<ref>The precise date of Csoma’s birth is uncertain. Most of his biographers give the date as April 4, 1784, but according to recent research this entry in the register of Kőrös might have referred to his older brother, who was baptized with the same name and died within a short time. Cf. Bernard Le Calloc’h, “Mikor született tulajdonképpen Kőrösi Csoma Sándor?” [When was S. K. Cs really born?], in: Kőrösi Csoma Sándor és a magyar keletkutatás, [S. K. Cs. and Hungarian Oriental Scholarship] pp. 7-12, Sepsiszentgyörgy, 2004.
 
</ref> in Transylvania, in the village of Kőrös, part of Háromszék county (today  Chiurus, Romania). He began his studies in the village school. Upon completion of these studies, he did not enter the almost life-long service of border-warden, compulsory for men in this frontier zone of Transylvania, but rather – thanks to the intervention of his father – he was allowed to continue his education in the Bethlenianum of Nagyenyed (today Ajud, Romania), the renowned Protestant college of Transylvania. Csoma was sent there by his father to study, more than 300 km from his native Kőrös. probably in order to take advantage of the free education offered by the college. [http://csoma.mtak.hu/en/csoma-elete.htm Read more...]
 
 
== Publications ==
 
 
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|bio=Sándor Csoma de Kőrös (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈkøːrøʃi ˈt͡ʃomɒ]; born Sándor Csoma; 27 March 1784/8 – 11 April 1842) was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil", and was declared a bosatsu or bodhisattva by the Japanese in 1933.[2] He was born in Kőrös, Grand Principality of Transylvania (today part of Covasna, Romania). His birth date is often given as 4 April, although this is actually his baptism day and the year of his birth is debated by some authors who put it at 1787 or 1788 rather than 1784. The Magyar ethnic group, the Székelys, to which he belonged believed that they were derived from a branch of Attila's Huns who had settled in Transylvania in the fifth century. Hoping to study the claim and to find the place of origin of the Székelys and the Magyars by studying language kinship, he set off to Asia in 1820 and spent his lifetime studying the Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy. Csoma de Kőrös is considered as the founder of Tibetology. He was said to have been able to read in seventeen languages. He died in Darjeeling while attempting to make a trip to Lhasa in 1842 and a memorial was erected in his honour by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_K%C5%91r%C3%B6si_Csoma Source Accessed May 5, 2022])
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Latest revision as of 15:38, 5 May 2022

Csoma de Kőrös, A. on the DRL

English Phonetics Alexander Csoma de Kőrös
Sort Name Csoma de Kőrös, Alexander
Alexander Csoma de Koros.jpg
Dates
Birth:   1784/8
Death:   1842
Place of birth:   Kőrös, Transylvania (today part of Covasna, Romania)


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Sándor Csoma de Kőrös (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈkøːrøʃi ˈt͡ʃomɒ]; born Sándor Csoma; 27 March 1784/8 – 11 April 1842) was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil", and was declared a bosatsu or bodhisattva by the Japanese in 1933.[2] He was born in Kőrös, Grand Principality of Transylvania (today part of Covasna, Romania). His birth date is often given as 4 April, although this is actually his baptism day and the year of his birth is debated by some authors who put it at 1787 or 1788 rather than 1784. The Magyar ethnic group, the Székelys, to which he belonged believed that they were derived from a branch of Attila's Huns who had settled in Transylvania in the fifth century. Hoping to study the claim and to find the place of origin of the Székelys and the Magyars by studying language kinship, he set off to Asia in 1820 and spent his lifetime studying the Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy. Csoma de Kőrös is considered as the founder of Tibetology. He was said to have been able to read in seventeen languages. He died in Darjeeling while attempting to make a trip to Lhasa in 1842 and a memorial was erected in his honour by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (Source Accessed May 5, 2022)

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