Ngawang Wangyal
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Ngawang Wangyal
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Ngawang Wangyal, aka Sogpo (Mongolian) Wangyal, popularly known as Geshe Wangyal and "America's first lama," was a Buddhist lama and scholar of Kalmyk origin. He was born in the Astrakhan province in southeast Russia sometime in 1901 and died in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1983. He came to the United States from Tibet in 1955 and was the spiritual leader of the Kalmuk Buddhist community in Freewood Acres, New Jersey at the Rashi Gempil-Ling Buddhist Temple. He is considered a "founding figure" o
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Tibetan-American Kalmyk Buddhist lama (1901–1983)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang_Wangyal
date created:
2006-02-20T04:13:48Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T19:20:21Z
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