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Anagarika Govinda, Lama, 1898-1985

LC control no.n 50046892
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingAnagarika Govinda, Lama, 1898-1985
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Variant(s)Govinda, Anagarika Brahmacari
Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda, 1898-1985
Anangavajra Khamsum-Wangchuk, 1898-1985
Govinda, Anagarika, 1898-1985
Hoffmann, Ernst, 1898-1985
Khamsum-Wangchuk, Anangavajra, 1898-1985
Wangchuk, Anangavajra Khamsum-, 1898-1985
Hofuman, Erunsuto, 1898-1985
ホフマン, エルンスト, 1898-1985
Other standard no.1111522545
Associated countryGermany Ceylon Tibet United States
Birth date1898-05-17
Death date1985-01-14
Place of birthWaldheim (Saxony, Germany)
Place of deathMill Valley (Calif.)
Field of activityBuddhism
Profession or occupationBuddhist converts Buddhist monks
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated
Found inArt and meditation : an introduction and twelve abstract paintings, 1936: title page (Anagarika B. Govinda)
Grundgedanken des Buddhismus und ihr Verhältnis zur Gottesidee, 1920: title page (von Ernst Hoffmann)
Gendai shichō yori mitaru Bukkyo no konpon shisō, 1922 : title page ( エルンスト· ホフマン = Erunsuto Hofuman)
The inner structure of the I ching, the Book of transformations, 1981: title page (Lama Anagarika Govinda)
The way of the white clouds, 1988, c1966: CIP title page (Lama Anagarika Govinda) info. (died 1985; Buddhist scholar) galley (born Ernst Hoffmann)
A living Buddhism for the West, 1990: CIP title page (Lama Anagarika Govinda) data sheet (born 1898; died 1985)
Das Buch der Gespräche, 1998: title page (Lama Anagarika Govinda (Anangavajra Khamsum Wangchuk)) page 9 (died January 14, 1985) jacket (born 1898; Buddhist scholar and writer; German by birth; studied philosophy, religion, archaeology in Freiburg, Naples, and Cagliari; in 1928, he went to Ceylon and entered a Theravada Buddhist monastery; one year later, he was ordained as a monk in Burma; encountered Tibetan Buddhism; obtained the title "Lama" in Tibet)
German Wikipedia, viewed October 14, 2021 (Anagarika Govinda; Lama Anagarika Govinda; born May 17, 1898, in Waldheim, Saxony; his birth name was Ernst Lothar Hoffmann; died January 14, 1985 in Mill Valley, California; German proponent of Buddhism and Taoism; author and artist; founder of the order Arya Maitreya Mandala; after many travels, he took up residence in California in 1978)
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online catalog, viewed October 14, 2021 (authorized access point: Hoffmann, Ernst Lothar; other data in authority record: variant form of name: Lama Anāgārika Govinda; born 1898 in Waldheim; died 1985 in California; lama; scholar of Buddhism; artist and author)
Associated languageger eng