# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dipa-ma
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:49:57.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dipa-ma"
name: "Dipa Ma"
slug: "dipa-ma"
description: "Nani Bala Barua, better known as Dipa Ma, was an Indian meditation teacher of Theravada Buddhism and was of Barua descent. She was a prominent Buddhist master in Asia and also taught in the United States where she influenced the American branch of the Vipassana movement."
tagline: "Indian meditation teacher (1911–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dipa_Ma_IMS.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1911-03-25"
deathDate: "1989"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.912350666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%92%82%E5%B8%95%E5%AC%A4"
    title: "蒂帕嬤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "দীপা মা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipa_Ma"
    title: "Dipa Ma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipa_Ma"
    title: "Dipa Ma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipa_Ma"
    title: "Dipa Ma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipa_Ma"
    title: "Dipa Ma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%92%E1%80%AD%E1%80%95%E1%80%99%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8"
    title: "ဒိပမား"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipa_Ma"
    title: "Dipa Ma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%BE%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%BA"
    title: "دیپا ماں"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5279681"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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