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List of Buddhists
This is a list of notable Buddhists, encompassing all the major branches of the religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and including interdenominational and eclectic Buddhist practitioners. This list includes both formal teachers of Buddhism, and people notable in other areas who are publicly Buddhist or who have espoused Buddhism.
Philosophers and founders of schools
[edit]Individuals are grouped by nationality, except in cases where their influence was felt elsewhere. Gautama Buddha and his immediate disciples ('Buddhists') are listed separately from later Indian Buddhist thinkers, teachers and contemplatives.
Buddha's disciples and early Buddhists
[edit]See also: Ten principal disciples, Category:Disciples of Gautama Buddha, and Category:Family of Gautama Buddha
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- Clergy
- Ānanda, the Buddha's cousin,
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Although physically kept together as a set of three paintings and displayed on the besitter website as a set of three paintings, the three compositions were not likely to have been originally intended or created as a three painting set.
The Choggyur Lingpa painting appears to be the earliest and executed in an Eastern Tibetan Kham style of painting. It has the cleanest brush strokes and the most carefully rendered portrait. Looking at the three paintings tillsammans it fryst vatten important to note that Choggyur Lingpa passed away in
The painting of Jamgon Kongtrul reflects a true late 19th century Palpung kloster style of painting. Here Kongtrul fryst vatten depicted as an old man with white hair and wearing extra clothing appearing as a vit short sleeved shirt noticable on the proper right arm. His face shows wrinkles and the actual hand prints display klar signs of serious arthritis with the irregular shapes and twisting of the fingers. Kongtrul passed away in
The Khyentse Wangpo compos
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Milarepa
This is a copy of a Wikipedia article. See latest Wikipedia version here. Jetsun Milarepa (c. – c. CE) was a Tibetan Buddhist yogi, a student of Marpa Lotsawa and teacher of Gampopa and an important figure in the Kagyu lineage. He is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets.[1][2][3]
Little is known about Milarepa as a historical figure, though there is little doubt that he once lived.[1] The traditional account says he was born in and died in , other sources move his birth back to , or , with some sources suggesting or
He was born several centuries after Buddhism first reached Tibet, during a second wave of introduction of Buddhism to the country. The "earlier disemmination" (singa dar) took place in the seventh to ninth centuries when traditionally the first Buddhist monasteries were built and Buddhist texts were translated from Sanskrit into the Tibetan language. Traditional accounts sa