Home›Hindu, Jain & Yogic Teachers›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.FactsTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHistorical Figures 1TraditionFilter Results2 entriesEraAll-520 to -460 (1)-607 to -507 (1)-700 to -501 (1)1089 to 1172 (1)1100 to 1200 (1)1414 to 1481 (1)1532 to 1623 (1)1855 to 1936 (1)1865 to 1951 (1)1869 to 1948 (1)600 to 655 (1)7th to 5th century BCE (start of the stated range, scholars differ on the century) (1)800 to 850 (1)850 to 950 (1)875 to 925 (1)900 to 950 (1)950 to 1016 (1)Place of ActivityAllBangladesh (1)Bengal (1)Gujarat (1)India (1)Kashmir (1)Kolkata (1)Nepal (1)Rajasthan (1)Sindh (1)Tamil Nadu (1)GenderAllMale (2)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (2)Historicity debated (1)Veneration StatusAllHistorically Significant but Not Venerated (1)Officially Recognized or Venerated (2)Popularly or Locally Venerated (1)Manner Of DeathAllAssassinated (1)NationalityAllIndia (2)India (1)Pallava Dynasty (1)Revered InAllHinduism (1)Jainism (1)Adherents Today MaximumAll5,000,000 (1)1,200,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll4,000,000 (1)1,200,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)National Census (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (2)Establishment StatusAllVaries by Province (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (1)Obligation to Support, No Set Rate (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2001-01-01 (1)2010-01-01 (1)2011-01-01 (1)2012-12-18 (1)2020-01-01 (1)2021-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll500 BCE (1)400 BCE (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1500 BCE (1)600 BCE (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (1)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)TheologyAllMonistic: one ultimate reality behind all appearance (1)Non-theistic: no creator god is central (1)Panentheistic: the divine both within the world and beyond it (1)Polytheistic: many gods (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareHinduismTradition19 entriesJainismTradition4 entriesSources1. 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.