- male, 60 years old
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) (1949 -) is an American Buddhist monk of the Thai forest kammatthana tradition. After graduating from Oberlin...
- male
- American-born Ajahn Sumedho is a seminal figure in the Thai Forest Tradition and Western Theravada Buddhism. The word "Ajahn" is not a proper name,...
- male
- Bodhidharma was the Buddhist monk traditionally credited as founder of Zen. Very little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is...
- male, deceased (1995) (San Francisco, California, United States)
- Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (Traditional Chinese: 宣化上人; Hanyu Pinyin: "Xuān Huà Shàng Rén", literal meaning:"proclaim and transform") (16 April, 1...
- male, deceased (1997)
- The venerable Prof Walpola Sri Rahula Maha Thera (1907-1997) was a Buddhist monk, scholar and writer. He is considered to be one of the top Sri...
- male
- Mahinda was a Buddhist monk who brought Buddhism to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He was the son of Emperor Ashoka and Devi of the Mauryan empire, who...
- male, deceased (1933)
- Anagarika Dharmapala (1864 - 1933) was a leading figure in initiating two outstanding features of Buddhism in the twentieth century. He was a...
- male
- Moggaliputta-Tissa (ca. 327 BC - 247 BC), (born in Pataliputra, Magadha (now Patna, India) was a Buddhist monk and scholar who lived in the 3rd...
- female
- Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni is an American-born Theravadan bhikkhuni and Buddhist teacher. Born "Heather Buske" in Washington, D.C. (~1968?), she...
- male, 57 years old
- Geshe Michael Roach is an American teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of Diamond Mountain University, the Asian Classics Institute, the...
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