Home›Subcategories›SagesSubcategoriesSages67 of 554 entries in Figures. Click any to see everything it connects to.Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Sages." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/subcategories/character/sages.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Sages. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/subcategories/character/sagesCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-sages, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Sages}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/subcategories/character/sages}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXFigures whose authority rests on wisdom rather than on revelation, office or descent, which makes this the widest heading in the category and the loosest. It holds the Chinese classical philosophers, the Vedanta commentators, jurists such as Maimonides and Al-Ghazali, and the founders of the Japanese Buddhist schools. What gathers them is partly what they lack: no tradition represented here calls them prophet, priest or king. That makes the shelf a residue as much as a category, so a place on it should be read as a statement about the kind of authority a figure held, not as a claim that any two of them are comparable.FactsLearn MoreSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedA heading of the atlas's own making rather than a category from the study of religion: figures revered for wisdom and teaching rather than for rule, prophecy or miracle. 2Peoples and Traditions CoveredWell-attestedA cover term over traditions with unrelated criteria for the office: the rishi of Vedic India, the acharya of the Indian schools, the Tirthankara of Jainism, the rabbinic sage, the junzi and the classical masters of China. None of those words is what the English word names, and the heading should not be read as one class of person. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedFigures 1BrowseCompareSelect all 67Abd al-Qadir al-JilaniSages7 linksAbdu'l-BahaSages10 linksAdi ShankaraSages10 linksAkiva ben JosephSages6 linksAkka MahadeviSages3 linksAl-GhazaliSages7 linksAndalSages2 linksAtishaSages8 linksAtriSages3 linksBuddhaghosaSages2 linksChaitanyaSages6 linksChen TuanSages4 linksCheng YiSages9 linksConfuciusSages38 linksDogenSages3 linksEvagrius PonticusSages3 linksGeorge WhitefieldSages7 linksHadewijch of AntwerpSages3 linksHakuinSages4 linksHeinrich BullingerSages9 linksHonenSages4 linksHuinengSages7 linksIbn AbbasSages4 linksIbn TaymiyyaSages7 linksImhotepSages5 linksJohanan ben ZakkaiSages5 linksJonathan EdwardsSages9 linksJulian of NorwichSages2 linksKabirSages8 linksKukaiSages7 linksLalleshwariSages3 linksLaoziSages28 linksLongchenpaSages1 linkMadhvaSages2 linksMaimonidesSages16 linksMarguerite PoreteSages3 linksMechthild of MagdeburgSages2 linksMeister EckhartSages3 linksMenciusSages8 linksMirabaiSages3 linksMoinuddin ChishtiSages7 linksNamdevSages5 linksPatanjaliSages8 linksPhilipp MelanchthonSages5 linksPseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteSages6 linksRamakrishnaSages7 linksRamana MaharshiSages1 linkRamanujaSages5 linksSaichoSages6 linksShinranSages5 linksThomas a KempisSages5 linksTukaramSages4 linksVishvamitraSages7 linksVivekanandaSages6 linksVyasaSages12 linksXuanzangSages11 linksXunziSages5 linksZhu XiSages16 linksZhuangziSages11 linksAsangaSages5 linksGautama AkshapadaSages2 linksJaiminiSages5 linksKanadaSages2 linksKhidrSages2 linksPeter BulkeleySages4 linksThomas HookerSages3 linksVasubandhuSages6 linksLearn MoreThe sages This group gathers sages: figures revered above all for wisdom: teachers, philosophers, seers and learned masters whose insight rather than miracle or rule defines their place in tradition. It is the largest character grouping in the atlas and spans many cultures. The browser will find the wise figures of many traditions, the rishis of India, the teachers of Chinese thought, the philosophers and holy teachers of other cultures. The entries describe each sage's teaching and the tradition that remembers them.Sources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005The classification of religious figuresView the SourceDivinity 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 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year