Quotes:Csoma de Kőrös, Alexander

Zirkoff, Boris

Csoma de Koros, Alexander (Sandor) (1784-1842). See Appendix to VoL I, p. 372, for biographical data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 501

Csoma de Koros, Alexander (Sandor) (1784-1842). See Vol. V, p. 372, for biographical data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 640

Csoma de Koros, Alexander (Sandor). Hungarian traveller and Tibetan scholar, b. Apr. 4, 1784, at Kôrôs, Transylvania; educated, College of Nagy-Enyed; later at Gottingen; studied Oriental languages. His dream was to discover original home of Magyars, in Asia. Went, 1820, to Egypt, Teheran, and Little Bokhara, disguised as Armenian; settled, 1827-30, at Buddhist monastery of Kanam, near Tibet, studying Tibetan; found that lamas knew very little on Magyar problem. Went to Calcutta to study Sanskrit; attracted attention of British scholars. Catalogued some 1,000 Tibetan volumes in the library of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. Prepared, 1834, his Tib. Gram., and a Dictionary, still standard works; wrote on Tib. literature in Asiatic Researches. Went to Western confines of China, bent on original pursuit; died at Darjiling, Apr. 11, 1842. (See Th. Duka, Life and Works of A. C. de Körös, London, 1885). Works: *A Grammar of the Tibetan Language, in English. Prepared under the patronage of the Gov. for the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1834, xii, 204 pp. 4vo. Essay towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English. Prepared with the assistance of bandé Sangs-Rgyas Phun-Tshogs, a learned lama of Zangskâr. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1834, 351 pp. 8vo.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 372