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  • Sarat Chandra Das the Bengali Spy, Sengchen Tulku and the Maha-Chohan Connection

    Sarat Chandra Das the Bengali Spy, Sengchen Tulku and the Maha-Chohan Connection

    Kazi Dawa Samdup (1868-1922) pioneered the introductions of Tibetan Buddhism to Europe and America and was one of the earliest translators of Tibetan Buddhist texts into the English language. One of these Tibetan Buddhist texts was the “Book of the Dead” with Dr. W.Y. Evans-Wentz. Kazi Dawa Samdup said of Helena P. Blavatsky’s writings, that…