# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tsangnyon-heruka
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:22:52.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tsangnyon-heruka"
name: "Tsangnyon Heruka"
slug: "tsangnyon-heruka"
description: "Tsangnyön Heruka, was an author and a master of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in Tsang, he is best known as a biographer and compiler of the Life of Milarepa and The Collections of Songs of Milarepa, both classics of Tibetan literature."
tagline: "Tibetan mendicant"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tsangnyon_Heruka_Kagyu_Lama.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1452"
deathDate: "1507"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.18
  momentum:             16.54502108930864
  historical:           5.279410666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsang_Ny%C3%B6n_Heruka_Sanggye_Gyeltshen"
    title: "Tsang Nyön Heruka Sanggye Gyeltshen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%9D%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Цанг Ньон Херука"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "গ্ত্সাং-স্ম্যোন-হেরুকা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsang%C3%B1%C3%B6n_Heruka"
    title: "Tsangñön Heruka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsangny%C3%B6n_Heruka"
    title: "Tsangnyön Heruka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsang_Ny%C3%B6n_Heruka"
    title: "Tsang Nyön Heruka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2457350"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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