Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup

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Short description

  • Lama Kazi or Dawasamdup (1868-1922) was the head master at Sikkim State Bhutia Boarding School in Gangkok before becoming translator for both the British administration and the Tibetan government.
  • Sikkimese scholar Kazi Dawa Samdup (1868 – 1922), who had previously also. been the teacher and translator for Alexandra David-Neel.

Main teachers

Tsampa Norbu (Slob dpon Mtshams pa Nor bu). Not much more seems to be known about him besides the name, and the testimony in Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, p. 105 and following. He was Bhutanese by birth. Mtshams pa implies he was a retreatant, and when Dawa Samdup met him he was staying in a hermitage near Buxaduar. Snyan grags bzang po is his initiation name. He died in 1916, at the age of about 78 years.

Published Works

  • An English-Tibetan Dictionary. Containing a Vocabulary of Approximately Twenty Thousand Words with their Tibetan Equivalents. Calcutta, The Baptist Mission Press, 1919. He based this dictionary on previous works by de Köros, Jäschke and Das. In the 4-page Preface he tells the interesting story of how he came to write it and his contact with such luminaries of the then Anglo-Indian-Tibetan establishment as D. Macdonald, H.B. Hannah, E.Denison Ross, J.C. White, Sir Thutob Namgyal, Sir Ashutosh Mukerjee and Sir Harcourt Butler.
  • Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines: Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path

W.Y. Evans-Wentz (Editor), Kazi Dawa-Sandup (Translator)

Unpublished Works (completed)

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