Alexander I. Andreyev
Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia is now 14 years old
Our Encyclopedia recently received a wonderful opportunity for a major renewal on its 14th birthday . After many years of growing our Encyclopedia had become bit slow and sometimes even decided not to answer when people knocked on the door.
A very big thank you and blessings to Dmytro Rudiy (rudiy.nl) for his great work in upgrading the server, website and all of the infrastructure and helping make TBE fast and reliable again for everyone!
We kindly ask our readers to help us cover the cost of this important upgrade and also help with the ongoing costs of keeping the Encyclopedia alive and freely available.
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Every little donation helps and every one is deeply appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏
OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM 🙏🙏🙏
May blessings shower down on all of yous 🙏🙏🙏

Alexander I. Andreyev – a historian, specializing in the history of Buddhism in Russia, Russo-Tibetan relations, exploration of Central Asia, occultism in Russia.
PhD, senior research fellow, Institute for the history of science and technology, Russian Academy, St Petersburg; Director of Petr Kozlov Memorial Museum (St. Petersburg). Author of books: Ot Baikala do sviastchennoi Lhasy (St. Petersburg, 1997), Soviet Russia and Tibet: The Debacle of secret diplomacy (Leiden-Boston, 2003), Khram Buddy v Severnoi Stolitse (St. Petersburg, 2004), Okkultist Strany Sovetov (Moscow, 2004), Tibet v politike tsarskoi, sovetskoi i post-sovetskoi Rossii (St. Petersburg, 2006).