Home›Buddhist Teachers & Monks›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups historical figures by the religious tradition they belonged to or helped shape, connecting a person to the belief system that claims them. Wikipedia describes a tradition as "a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past." Browsing this way lets a visitor read every founder, reformer or teacher from one tradition together, rather than finding them scattered by century.FactsTraditionConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHistorical Figures 1TraditionFilter Results1 entryEraAll-304 to -229 (1)1141 to 1215 (1)1158 to 1210 (1)1222 to 1282 (1)1234 to 1289 (1)1258 to 1308 (1)1326 to 1386 (1)1385 to 1464 (1)1520 to 1604 (1)1617 to 1682 (1)1635 to 1723 (1)1846 to 1923 (1)1854 to 1938 (1)1870 to 1949 (1)1870 to 1966 (1)1883 to 1969 (1)1897 to 1963 (1)1918 to 1992 (1)1925 to 2018 (1)1926 to 2022 (1)1927 to 2023 (1)220 to 280 (1)334 to 416 (1)344 to 413 (1)538 to 597 (1)596 to 667 (1)613 to 681 (1)617 to 686 (1)625 to 702 (1)632 to 650 (1)635 to 713 (1)643 to 712 (1)780 to 841 (1)807 to 869 (1)810 to 866 (1)864 to 949 (1)938 to 1018 (1)Place of ActivityAllBhutan (1)Cambodia (1)Champa (1)Chang'an (1)China (1)Dharamshala (1)France (1)Guangdong (1)Japan (1)Jiangxi (1)Laos (1)Mongolia (1)Myanmar (1)Saint Petersburg (1)Scotland (1)Shaanxi (1)South Korea (1)Sri Lanka (1)Suizhou (1)Taiwan (1)Thailand (1)Tibet (1)Ubon Ratchathani (1)Udon Thani (1)United States (1)Varanasi (1)Vietnam (1)GenderAllFemale (1)Male (1)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (1)Historicity debated (1)Veneration StatusAllHistorically Significant but Not Venerated (1)Officially Recognized or Venerated (1)Popularly or Locally Venerated (1)Manner Of DeathAllAssassinated (1)Died of natural causes (1)Disputed (1)Martyred (1)NationalityAllCambodia (1)China (1)India (1)Japan (1)Mongolia (1)Myanmar (1)Russian Empire (1)South Korea (1)Taiwan (1)Thailand (1)Thailand (1)The Qing Dynasty (1)The Tang Dynasty (1)Tran dynasty (1)United Kingdom (1)Vietnam (1)Member OfAllFo Guang Shan (1)Revered InAllBuddhism (1)Adherents Today MaximumAll324,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll324,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Establishment StatusAllVaries by Province (1)FounderAllSiddhartha Gautama, the Buddha (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (1)2012-12-18 (1)2020-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll400 BCE (1)Origin Period Start YearAll500 BCE (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)TheologyAllNon-theistic: no creator god is central (1)Show ResultsBuddhismTradition42 entriesConnectionsAssociated WithAsia, Continents Well-attested This source names Asia directly: "forest monks of Theravada Southeast Asia to the Seon and Pure Land masters of Korea and China and the hierarchs and treasure revealers of Tibet."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1China, Countries Well-attested This source names China directly: "and Pure Land masters of Korea and China and the hierarchs and treasure revealers of Tibet."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Pure Land, Denominations Well-attested This source names Pure Land directly: "Southeast Asia to the Seon and Pure Land masters of Korea and China and the hierarchs and treasure revealers of Tibet."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Theravada, Denominations Well-attested This source names Theravada directly: "and history, from the forest monks of Theravada Southeast Asia to the Seon and Pure Land masters of Korea and China and the hierarchs and treasure revealers of Tibet."Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Category: Historical FiguresDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.