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This page provides a simple browsing interface for finding entities described by a property and a named value. Other available search interfaces include the page property search, and the ask query builder.

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• Csoma de Kőrös, A.  + (S%C3%A1ndor+Csoma+de+K%C5%91r%C3%B6s+%28Hu … S%C3%A1ndor+Csoma+de+K%C5%91r%C3%B6s+%28Hungarian%3A+%5B%CB%88%CA%83a%CB%90ndor+%CB%88k%C3%B8%CB%90r%C3%B8%CA%83i+%CB%88t%CD%A1%CA%83om%C9%92%5D%3B+born+S%C3%A1ndor+Csoma%3B+27+March+1784%2F8+%E2%80%93+11+April+1842%29+was+a+Hungarian+philologist+and+Orientalist%2C+author+of+the+first+Tibetan%E2%80%93English+dictionary+and+grammar+book.+He+was+called+Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa+in+Tibetan%2C+meaning+%22the+foreign+pupil%22%2C+and+was+declared+a+bosatsu+or+bodhisattva+by+the+Japanese+in+1933.%5B2%5D+He+was+born+in+K%C5%91r%C3%B6s%2C+Grand+Principality+of+Transylvania+%28today+part+of+Covasna%2C+Romania%29.+His+birth+date+is+often+given+as+4+April%2C+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%2C+the+Sz%C3%A9kelys%2C+to+which+he+belonged+believed+that+they+were+derived+from+a+branch+of+Attila%27s+Huns+who+had+settled+in+Transylvania+in+the+fifth+century.+Hoping+to+study+the+claim+and+to+find+the+place+of+origin+of+the+Sz%C3%A9kelys+and+the+Magyars+by+studying+language+kinship%2C+he+set+off+to+Asia+in+1820+and+spent+his+lifetime+studying+the+Tibetan+language+and+Buddhist+philosophy.+Csoma+de+K%C5%91r%C3%B6s+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.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FS%25C3%25A1ndor_K%25C5%2591r%25C3%25B6si_Csoma+Source+Accessed+May+5%2C+2022%5D%29_Csoma+Source+Accessed+May+5%2C+2022%5D%29)