Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (born 1914)

Bidia Dandaron

Soviet Buryat Buddhist teacher, author, and dissident (1914–1974)

Bidia Dandarovich Dandaron was a Buryat Buddhist lama, Tibetologist, Buddhologist and translator. A victim of Soviet religious persecution, Dandaron was imprisoned for a total of 17 years throughout his life and died aged 59 in Vydrino Labor Camp.