# Puran Singh

> Professor Puran Singh was a Punjabi poet, scientist and mystic. Born in Abbottabad, now in Pakistan, in a Sikh family, he is one of the founders of modern Punjabi poetry.
He passed his matriculation examination at the Mission High School Rawalpindi in 1897 and, after obtaining a scholarship for the years 1900 to 1903, obtained a degree in Industrial Chemistry from Tokyo University in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Though a born Sikh he became a Buddhist Bhikshu and a sanyasi under influence of Ukakura a Japanese Buddhist monk and Swami Ramtirath respectively before he finally got settled as a Sikh mystic when he came under influence of Bhai Vir Singh during a Sikh Educational Conference meeting at Sialkot in 1912.

*Indian writer, poet*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/puran-singh

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1881-02-17
- **Died:** 1931-03-31
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 42.1 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 5.6 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 40.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Puran_Singh)
- [Puran Singh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puran_Singh)
- [पूर्णसिंह](https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B9)
- [ਪੂਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ](https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A8_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%98)
- [پورن سنگھ](https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%86%DA%AF%DA%BE)
- [పురాన్ సింగ్](https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D)
- [پورن سنگھ](https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%86%DA%AF%DA%BE)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7260822)

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