Alexander Csoma de Kőrös
For his biography, de Zirkoff refers readers to the appendix of Collected Writings, volume I, page 372. (BCW 3:501).
The appendix refers to his biography in volume V, page 372. (BCW 4:640).
Hungarian traveller and Tibetan scholar (1784-1842), whose search for the Asian origins of the Magyars led him to study Tibetan literature. Prepared a Tibetan grammar and a Tibetan-English dictionary, both published at Calcutta in 1834 for the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (BCW).
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- Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
- CTD article in Russian: Чома Кёрёши, Шандор
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