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Buton Rinchen Drub

1290 - 1364

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Butön Rinchen Drup (Tibetan: བུ་སྟོན་རིན་ཆེན་གྲུབ་, Wylie: bu ston rin chen grub), (1290–1364), 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery, was a 14th-century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader. Shalu was the first of the major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsang dynasty during Tibet's great revival of Buddhism, and was an important center of the Sakya tradition. Butön was not merely a capable administrator but he is remembered to this very day as a prodigious scholar and writer and is Tibet's most celebrated historian. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Buton Rinchen Drub is the 3,608th most popular writer (down from 3,328th in 2019). (down from 2,752nd in 2019)

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Among writers, Buton Rinchen Drub ranks 3,608 out of 7,302. Before him are Nevil Shute, Vassilis Vassilikos, Brandon Sanderson, George Kodinos, Alma Reville, and Ernst Jandl. After him are Ferdinand Brunetière, Alberto Hurtado, Hwang Sok-yong, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, and Mirko Kovač.

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Among people born in 1290, Buton Rinchen Drub ranks 22. Before him are Matthias of Arras, Constance of Portugal, Giovanni Visconti, Anne of Bohemia, Giovanni de' Marignolli, and Johannes de Muris. After him are Viola of Teschen, Guido Gonzaga, and Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev. Among people deceased in 1364, Buton Rinchen Drub ranks 13. Before him are Elisenda of Montcada, Edward Balliol, Agnes of Austria, Louis, Count of Gravina, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia, and Longchenpa. After him is Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf Pasha.

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