Alan Watts

Alan Watts

male, deceased (1973)
Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973) was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion. He was best known...

Thomas Cleary

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

Zhang Sanfeng

male
Zhang Sanfeng was a semi-mythical Chinese Taoist priest who is believed by some to have achieved immortality, said variously to date from either...

Hanshan

male
Hanshan (fl. 9th century) was a mythological figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and Zen...
John P. Milton

John P. Milton

male
John P. Milton is a meditation and Qi Gong instructor, author, and a pioneering environmentalist. He pioneered vision questing in contemporary...
Sengzhao

Sengzhao

male, deceased (414)
Sengzhao or Seng-Chao, from Jingzhao, was a Buddhist Chinese philosopher and the first disciple of Kumārajīva. He helped translate Indian tr...
Emperor Wuzong Of Tang

Emperor Wuzong Of Tang

male, deceased (846)
Emperor Tang Wuzong, born Li Yan, was the fifteenth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China. He reigned from 840 to 846. Wuzong is remembered mainly...
Lu Sheng-Yen

Lu Sheng-Yen

male, 64 years old
Lu Sheng-Yen (June 27, 1945-), commonly referred to by followers as Master Lu is the founder and spiritual leader of the True Buddha School, a new...

Emperor Taiwu Of Northern Wei

male, deceased (452)
Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei ((北)魏太武帝) (408-452), personally name Tuoba Tao (拓拔燾), nickname Foli (佛貍), was an emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei dyna...

Empress Hu

female
Empress Hu was an empress of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei. Her husband was Emperor Xiaoming. Little is known about Empress Hu...