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Lama Anagarika Govinda |
 | | Lama Anagarika Govinda was born Ernst Lothar Hoffman in Waldheim, Germany (old kingdom of Saxony) in 1898, the son of a German father and a Bolivian mother. |
 | | In 1931 Govinda attended a Buddhist conference in Darjeeling, intending to affirm the purity of the Theravadin tradition against the Mahayana, which in his view, had degenerated into "a system of demon-worship and weird beliefs." He little realized that the trip was to alter his life. |
 | | Govinda made several visits to Tibet, most notably in the very early 1930s, followed again after the war in 1948-49, and was initiated into the Karg-yu and Nying-ma lineages. |
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