Yeshi Donden

Tibetan Doctor · Writers · Lived 1927 to 2019 · aged 92

Yeshi Dhonden was a Tibetan doctor of traditional Tibetan medicine, and served the 14th Dalai Lama from 1961 to 1980. In 2018, the Indian government honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India.

Yeshi Donden is read about 39 times a day, in 8 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 16 June 2026

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The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Padma Shri Award to Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, at the Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 20 March 2018.

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Padma Shri in Medicine2018

Personal Physician to the Dalai Lama

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Writers born in the 1920s 6

Jan Procházka46.0 of 100

Tubten Jigme Norbu45.6 of 100 Vivian Ayers Allen46.0 of 100 Lu Wenfu44.8 of 100

Ann Turner Cook46.4 of 100 Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati44.7 of 100