The Eastern aisle
23 lives, 69 volumes on this shelf. Own any title for $8, the ebook and the audiobook together, yours forever, or a Complete Life, all three volumes, for $20.
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Sages, awakened ones, and masters of the eternal dharma: Hindu and Vedic, Buddhist, Daoist, and the way of the Gurus, each told from within.
Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)
He told every seeker the same impossible thing: you are already free.
Advaita Vedanta / Non-Dual Hinduism; rooted in Bhakti, matured through the Direct Path of Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Sri Krishna (also: Govinda, Madhava, Murari, Syamasundara, Hari, Keshava, Vasudeva)
The flute sounded in Vrindavan, and the whole of heaven came out to dance.
Hinduism, Vaishnavism (Krishnaism)
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Li Hongzhi (李洪志, Lǐ Hóngzhì)
A quiet man from Changchun taught a practice, and a hundred million sat down to learn.
Falun Dafa (Falun Gong), a cultivation practice rooted in Buddhist and Daoist self-cultivation traditions, centered on the cosmic principles of Zhen-Shan-Ren: Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance
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Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha / Shakyamuni)
A prince walked out of his palace and sat down until the universe opened.
Buddhism
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Guru Nanak Dev Ji
He vanished into the river for three days, and returned with one sentence that founded a faith.
Sikhism (Gurmat, the Way of the Guru)
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Jagadguru Sri Adi Shankaracharya (Bhagavatpada Acharya)
An eight-year-old left home to find the Self, and reshaped a civilization.
Sanatana Dharma / Advaita Vedanta
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Sant Mirabai (Meera Bai / Meerabai / Mira)
A princess threw away a throne for love of the Dark One, and sang.
Hindu Bhakti (Vaishnava), Krishna devotion
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Jetsün Milarepa (Mi la ras pa)
He murdered thirty-five people. Then he became Tibet's greatest saint.
Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism
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Paramahansa Yogananda (born Mukunda Lal Ghosh)
He crossed an ocean with a message: the soul can know God directly.
Sanatana Dharma (Hindu); Kriya Yoga lineage of Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
At sixteen he lay down, died before death, and woke as the Self.
Advaita Vedanta, Shaiva Hindu
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Thich Nhat Hanh (Thich Nhat Hanh; born Nguyen Xuan Bao; known to students as Thay)
War burned his country. He answered with breath, and peace became a practice.
Mahayana Buddhism, Thien (Vietnamese Zen), Plum Village Tradition
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Lao Tzu (Laozi / 老子)
He wrote five thousand characters at the border gate, and vanished into the west.
Taoism (Daoism)
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Swami Vivekananda (born Narendranath Datta)
He walked onto a Chicago stage unknown, said five words, and the hall stood roaring.
Hindu / Vedanta, Ramakrishna Order
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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
He practiced every faith he could find, and each one led him to the same light.
Hindu, Vedanta, Shaktism, Advaita; universalist in practice
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Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo (Phra Bodhiñāṇathera)
He gave the forest as a classroom and stillness as the only lesson.
Theravāda Buddhism, Thai Forest Tradition (Kammaṭṭhāna lineage)
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Sai Baba of Shirdi
He kept a fire burning in a ruined mosque, and Hindu and Muslim alike came to warm themselves.
Syncretic Hindu-Sufi; pan-Indian saint tradition (Sant Mat lineage / Datta sampradaya resonance)
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Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche)
Born of a lotus, he crossed the mountains and planted the dharma where it could never be uprooted.
Vajrayana Buddhism
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Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
He danced the name of God through Bengal until whole towns sang behind him.
Hindu, Vaishnava
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Goswami Tulsidas (born Rambola Dubey)
He set the story of Rama in the speech of ordinary people, and a nation learned to sing it.
Hindu, Bhakti tradition, Saguna school; Rama-bhakta; philosopher of Vishishtadvaita
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Eihei Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師)
He sailed to China for an answer and came home with nothing but sitting.
Mahayana Buddhism / Zen
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Hui-neng (Dajian Huineng, 大鑒惠能)
An unlettered woodcutter heard one line of scripture and understood everything.
Chan (Zen) Buddhism
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Sri Ramanujacharya (Ramanuja)
Sworn to keep a saving mantra secret, he climbed a tower and gave it to everyone below.
Hinduism, Vaishnavism
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Nāgārjuna (Nagarjuna)
He took every certainty apart and found the freedom waiting underneath.
Mahāyāna Buddhism
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