Hindu and Dharmic Founders

Founders of Hindu and dharmic devotional and yogic movements, including a twelfth century South Indian philosopher, poet and social reformer who founded the Lingayat tradition, rejecting caste distinctions and idol worship in favor of direct personal devotion to Shiva, and two twentieth century teachers whose systematized presentations, Transcendental Meditation and a modern lineage of hatha and tantric yoga instruction, carried Hindu contemplative and yogic practice to a large global following well beyond India's own borders.