This page groups figures by the year their life is said to have begun. Wikipedia notes that "questions of historicity frequently arise in relation to historical studies of religion," since a birth year for an ancient figure is often an estimate rather than a fixed record. Browsing by lifespan start year lets a visitor compare how far back one figure's own life reaches against another's.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingA comparative heading: close followers who receive and transmit a teaching without the sending role of an apostle. The relations it gathers are defined quite differently by the traditions that hold them, and the obligations of a disciple are not the same in any two of them. 2 Learn More
The disciples
This group gathers disciples, followers and students of a teacher or founder who learn and transmit a tradition without necessarily holding the sending role of an apostle. The term is used across several traditions for the close circle around a master.
The browser will find the figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe each disciple's relation to their teacher and their part in carrying the teaching forward.
Lifespan Start Year
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005The classification of religious figuresView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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