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Born 992 • Tibet
Died 1072 (aged 80)
Founder Sa-skya-pa
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Bu-ston
Tibetan Buddhist scholar
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’Phags-pa
ruler of Tibet
14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhist monk
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Chögyam Trungpa
Tibetan abbot
Milarepa
Milarepa
Tibetan Buddhist master
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Mar-pa
Buddhist scholar
Srong-brtsan-sgam-po
Srong-brtsan-sgam-po
king of Tibet
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Rin-chen-bzang-po
Buddhist monk
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’Brom-ston
Tibetan Buddhist monk
Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life
St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman after Peter Paul Rubens showing St. Ignatius of Loyola with a halo, hands clasped in prayer before a crucifix and open book.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Romanian religious historian and author
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Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
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Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
The second founder of the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi