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Born 1040
Died 1123 (aged 83)
Bu-ston
Tibetan Buddhist scholar
14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhist monk
Mar-pa
Buddhist scholar
Rin-chen-bzang-po
Buddhist monk
’Brom-ston
Tibetan Buddhist monk
Shariputra
disciple of the Buddha
Lobsang Sangay
Lobsang Sangay
Tibetan scholar and political leader
Chögyam Trungpa
Tibetan abbot
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava
Buddhist mystic
’Phags-pa
ruler of Tibet
Śāntirakṣita
Indian teacher
Srong-brtsan-sgam-po
Srong-brtsan-sgam-po
king of Tibet
Tsong-kha-pa
Tibetan lama
’Brog-mi
Tibetan monk
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Saint Nilus of Ancyra
Greek abbot
Mark The Hermit
Christian theologian
Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
Diadochus Of Photice
theologian