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The Axial Age: 5 Fast Facts
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The 14th Dalai Lama: A Life in Pictures
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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?
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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
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Born August 20, 1912 • New Haven • Connecticut
Died May 6, 2004 (aged 91) • Rochester • New York
Founder Rochester Zen Center
Subjects Of Study Zen
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Alan Watts
British-born American writer, philosopher, and lecturer
Bodhidharma
Buddhist monk
Li Hongzhi
Chinese-born religious leader
Suzuki Shōsan
Japanese Zen priest
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian spiritual leader
Hakuin
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Philip Whalen
American poet
Nishida Kitarō
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Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak
founder of Sikhism
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
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Chögyam Trungpa
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Evagrius Ponticus
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Hui-neng
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Bahubali
Bahubali
Jainism
D.T. Suzuki
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Seraphim of Sarov, Saint
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Russian monk
Takuan Sōhō
Japanese priest
Bunsei
Japanese artist
Lee Shubert
American theatrical manager