Surya Das

Surya Das

male, 59 years old
Lama Surya Das is a trained and authorized American-born lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist and...
Daisaku Ikeda

Daisaku Ikeda

male, 81 years old
Daisaku Ikeda , President of Soka Gakkai International, Japan
Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

male, deceased (1860)
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is most famous for his work "The World as Will and Representation".
Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong

female, 65 years old
Karen Armstrong (b. November 14 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism....
Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder

male, 79 years old
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental...
Ole Nydahl

Ole Nydahl

male, 68 years old
Lama Ole Nydahl (b. 19 March 1941 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Buddhist teacher and a Lama of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Since the...
Vasubandhu

Vasubandhu

male
Vasubandhu was an Indian Buddhist scholar-monk, and along with his half-brother Asanga, one of the main founders of the Indian Yogācāra school. Va...
Seung Sahn

Seung Sahn

male, deceased (2004)
Seung Sahn Haeng Won Soen-sa (1927-2004) was a Korean Zen Buddhist monk, and the 78th patriarch in his lineage of Korean Zen (or Korean S?n)...
Sheng-Yen

Sheng-Yen

male, 78 years old
Venerable Master Sheng-yen is one of the more famous living teachers of Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism. Master Sheng Yen is the 57th generation...

Thomas Cleary

male
Thomas Cleary (b. 1949) is a prolific, and somewhat reclusive, author and translator of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian and Muslim religious...