Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

male, deceased (1902)
Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta ("Nôrendrônath Dôt-tô"), was one of the most...
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

male, deceased (1941) (India)
(7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright,...
David Frawley

David Frawley

male, 59 years old
David Frawley, or Vāmadeva Šāstrī (वामदेव शास्त्री) is an author on Hinduism, Yoga and Ayurveda. He has worked extensively teaching, writing, l...
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".
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...
Ravi Zacharias

Ravi Zacharias

male, 63 years old (Alpharetta, Georgia, United States)
Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian philosopher,...
Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger

female, 69 years old
Wendy Doniger (born November 20 1940) is an American professor of religion, active in international religious studies since 1973. Much of her work...
Ram Dass

Ram Dass

male, 78 years old
Dr. Richard Alpert, also known as Baba Ram Dass, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller "Be Here Now". He is well-known...
Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara

male
Adi Shankara, a Hindu philsospher of the Advaita Vedanta school, wrote many works in his life-time of thirty two years; however, many works thought...
Koenraad Elst

Koenraad Elst

male, 50 years old
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian writer and orientalist (without institutional affiliation). He has authored fifteen books on topics related to Hinduism,...