# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bidia-dandaron
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:18:38.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bidia-dandaron"
name: "Bidia Dandaron"
slug: "bidia-dandaron"
description: "Bidia Dandarovich Dandaron, religious name Chitta-Vajra, was a Soviet Buryat Buddhist lama, Tibetologist, Buddhologist and translator, known for being the successor of the Balagat movement. A victim of Soviet religious persecution, Dandaron was imprisoned for a total of 15 years throughout his life and died aged 59 in Vydrino Labor Camp."
tagline: "Russian Buddhist writer and Tibetan studies scholar (1914–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dandaron.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-12-28"
deathDate: "1974-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.86
  momentum:             1.165048543689321
  historical:           5.483226666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidija_Dandaron"
    title: "Bidija Dandaron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بيديا داندارون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidia_Dandaron"
    title: "Bidia Dandaron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Бідія Дандарон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidia_Dandaron"
    title: "Bidia Dandaron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Дандарон, Бидия Дандарович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1968548"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump