Thinkers 600 BCE – present Asia
Eastern Philosophy
Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Jain, and Vedantic traditions.
17 dated entries 23 on the year rail sparse for a year wall
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Year rail · 23 year-precision entries kept off the day grid See the corpus →
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What lands on a date
- 01-09 Wang Yangming · Died. Unity of knowledge and action. source
- 01-12 Swami Vivekananda · Vedanta in the modern world. source
- 01-18 Hakuin Ekaku · Died. Rinzai Zen revival; the koan. source
- 01-19 Dōgen · Zen master; Shōbōgenzō. source
- 01-19 Hakuin Ekaku · Rinzai Zen revival; the koan. source
- 01-22 Thich Nhat Hanh · Died. Engaged Buddhism; mindfulness. source
- 02-17 Jiddu Krishnamurti · Died. Freedom from the known. source
- 04-23 Zhu Xi · Died. Neo-Confucian synthesis. source
- 05-12 Jiddu Krishnamurti · Freedom from the known. source
- 07-04 Swami Vivekananda · Died. Vedanta in the modern world. source
- 08-15 Sri Aurobindo · Integral yoga; the supramental. source
- 09-22 Dōgen · Died. Zen master; Shōbōgenzō. source
- 09-28 Confucius · Analects; ren, li, and the junzi. source
- 10-11 Thich Nhat Hanh · Engaged Buddhism; mindfulness. source
- 10-18 Zhu Xi · Neo-Confucian synthesis. source
- 10-31 Wang Yangming · Unity of knowledge and action. source
- 12-05 Sri Aurobindo · Died. Integral yoga; the supramental. source
Honest dates
The year rail
Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.
- Confucius -479
- Laozi -600
- Laozi -500
- Zhuangzi -369
- Zhuangzi -286
- Mencius -372
- Mencius -289
- Mozi -470
- Mozi -391
- Xunzi -310
- Xunzi -235
- The Buddha -563
- The Buddha -483
- Mahavira -599
- Mahavira -527
- Nagarjuna 150
- Nagarjuna 250
- Adi Shankara 788