Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (died 1842)

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

Hungarian linguist and orientalist (1784–1842)

Sándor Csoma de Kőrös was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil", and was declared a bosatsu or bodhisattva by the Japanese in 1933. He…