Private Study Rooms of Famous People Pt.3 [14 Pics]

Jun 27 2018

What gives a better perspective on a man's mind more, than the environment where he creates? A continuation of our popular Private Study Rooms of Famous People series.

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14th Dalai Lama is the head monk of the Gelug school, the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He has since traveled the world, advocating for the welfare of Tibetans, teaching Tibetan Buddhism and talking about the importance of compassion as the source of a happy life. He has spoken about the environment, economics, women's rights, non-violence, interfaith dialog, physics, astronomy, reproductive health, and sexuality, along with various Mahayana and Vajrayana topics.

Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837) was an English architect who specialized in the Neo-Classical style. He rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the Royal Academy and an official architect to the Office of Works. He received a knighthood in 1831.

Peter Sunde "Shaggy" is co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine. He is an equality advocate and has expressed concerns over issues of centralization of power to the European Union in his blog. On 31 May 2014, just days after the EU elections and exactly eight years after the police raided The Pirate Bay servers, Sunde was arrested at a farm in Oxie, Malmö.

Srila Prabhupada was a Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual teacher (guru) and the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the "Hare Krishna Movement".

Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work, which includes Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and Local Souls, is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina.

Phillip Roebuck is a Virginia-born, New York-bred songster and bare bones one-man band.

Albus Dumbledore is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. He is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts and the founder and leader of the Order of the Phoenix, an organization dedicated to fighting Lord Voldemort.

Ernest Thompson Seton was an author (published in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the US), wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910. He is responsible for the appropriation and incorporation of what he believed to be American Indian elements into the traditions of the BSA.

Jacques Doucet was a French fashion designer and art collector. He is known for his elegant dresses, made with flimsy translucent materials in superimposing pastel colors.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party.

Casey Owen Neistat is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger, and co-founder of defunct multimedia company Beme.

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today.

Constantine J. Hering was an early pioneer of homeopathy in the United States.

Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.

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