The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2543 page)

(1894–1984).
Italian explorer and orientalist, the most influential scholar of Indian and Tibetan
Mah
y
na
Buddhism of recent times. He organized a total of eight expeditions to Tibet, and in 1948 he stayed in Lhasa as a personal guest of the fourteenth Dalai Lama and was the only W. Buddhist scholar to spend time at the monastic citadel of
bSam-yas
. Among his more important publications are
Tibetan Painted Scrolls
(1949),
The Religions of Tibet
(1980),
The Theory and Practice of the Mandala
(1949), and
Storia della filosofia indiana
(1957).

 
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(
c.
1607–1649).
Hindu poet, who, after an unhappy second marriage, turned to religion, starting with the worship of Vi
hob
at Pan
herpur. He studied the
Bh
gavata
of
Ekn
th
, and after a period of study and meditation, began composing verses in Abha
ga metre. His Abha
gas number 6,000–8,000 and are devotional in character, with practical advice for the ordinary man and woman.

 
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