Karl Tõnisson

[2] In 1930 he left Europe for Thailand, later settling in Burma, dying in Rangoon, aged 78.

[3] His parents died at an early age (his father in 1891 and his mother in 1895) after which he was raised by his uncle.

[4] Around 1910 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he likely met Agvan Dorzhiev and other Kalmyk and Buryat lamas.

[7] He spent part of this time guarding the Datsan Gunzechoinei building site.

[11] During and after World War II Tõnisson and Lustig became involved in Thai politics, raising a Soviet flag on their roof and criticizing Thailand's wartime collaboration with Japan.

Karl Tõnisson—Karlis Tenisson—Brother Vahindra year 1928
Martin Steinke [ de ] (German Buddhist delegate), Kushok Bakula Rinpoche , Friedrich Voldemar Lustig , and Karl Tõnisson (on the right) represented Latvia as delegates at the congress of the World Buddhist Federation in Rangoon 1954 at the opening of the Sixth Buddhist Council
Buddha , Hermann Knackfüß 's and Wilhelm II 's print (1895) illustrates brother Vahindra's book "My and my disciples adhere to" (1930) [1] [2]
Karl Tõnisson third from the left in front of Saint Petersburg ’s largest Buddhist Temple Datsan Gunzechoinei
Karl Tõnisson on the left next to a Buddha statue at Saint Petersburg ’s largest Buddhist Temple Datsan Gunzechoinei
Publication titled "Song of the Stormbird, about my life." authored by Karl A.M. Tõnisson, during the years 1905-1910 in Riga .