Bidia Dandaron
Bidia Dandaron | |
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Бидия Дандарон | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Bidia Dandarovich Dandaron 28 December [O.S. 14 December] 1914 |
| Died | 26 October 1974 (aged 59) |
| Spouse | Elizaveta Andreevna Shulunova
(m. 1931, died)Zundyma Tsydypova (m. 1943) |
| Education | Leningrad State University |
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| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Movement | Balagat movement |
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| Reincarnation | 14th (Buryat) Gyayag Lama Bidiadara Dandaron (Wylie: bidya dha ra) |
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| Subject | Tibetan Buddhism |
Bidia Dandarovich Dandaron (Russian: Бидия Дандарович Дандарон; 1914–1974), religious name Chitta-Vajra (Russian: Читта-Ваджра, romanized: Čitta-Vadžra), was a Soviet Buryat Buddhist lama, Tibetologist, Buddhologist and translator, known for being the successor of the Balagat movement. A victim of Soviet religious persecution, Dandaron was imprisoned for a total of 15 years throughout his life and died aged 59 in Vydrino Labor Camp.