# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/namkhai-norbu
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:28.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/namkhai-norbu"
name: "Namkhai Norbu"
slug: "namkhai-norbu"
description: "Namkhai Norbu was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at Naples Eastern University. He was a leading authority on Tibetan culture, particularly in the fields of history, literature, traditional religions, and Traditional Tibetan medicine, having written numerous books and scholarly articles on these subjects."
tagline: "Tibetan Dzogchen master (1938–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Namkhai_Norbu_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-12-08"
deathDate: "2018-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.825448207171315
  historical:           11.875996
  currentAttention:     35.06944444444445
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4682118/"
    handle:    "nm4682118"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://dzogchen.net"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نامخاى نوربو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namkhai_Norbu"
    title: "Namkhai Norbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namkhai_Norbu"
    title: "Namkhai Norbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chogyal_Namkhai_Norbu"
    title: "Chogyal Namkhai Norbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namkhai_Norbu_Rinpoch%C3%A9"
    title: "Namkhai Norbu Rinpoché"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namkhai_Norbu"
    title: "Namkhai Norbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namkhai_Norbu"
    title: "Namkhai Norbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Czogjal Namkhai Norbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чогьял Намкай Норбу"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump