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- Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as t...
- male
- King Suddhodana was the father of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha. He was a leader of the Shakya people, who lived in an area around...
- male
- Devadatta was a Buddhist monk, as well as the cousin of Gautama Buddha, who was recorded as having created a schism in the sangha, or monastic...
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- 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...
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- Dennis Genpo Merzel (1944 to present) was born in Brooklyn, NY and is a Zen Buddhist teacher as well as a Dharma heir to Taizan Maezumi. As a young...
- male, deceased (1054)
- Atisha’s response to his parents’ proposal as documented in Buddhist biographical texts evidences the level of commitment the young prince had for...
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- Mahapajapati Gotami was the first woman to request ordination from the Buddha and to join the Sangha. She was both the Buddha's aunt and adoptive...
- male, deceased (1210)
- Jinul (1158 – 1210) was a Korean monk of the Goryeo period, who is considered to be the most influential figure in the formation of Korean Seon Bu...
- male, deceased (774)
- Amoghavajra was a prolific translator who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history, acknowledged as one of the...
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- Jan Chozen Bays, MD (1945 -), is a pediatrician and Zen teacher practicing in Oregon. With her husband Laren Hogen Bays, since 1985 she has been a...
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