Buddhist monks

Buddhabhadra (simplified Chinese: 佛陀跋陀罗; traditional Chinese: 佛陀跋陀羅; pinyin: Fótuóbátuóluó) (359-429 CE) was an Indian Buddhist monk, with the title of śramaṇa.

(In this Burmese name, U is an honorific.) U Dhammaloka (Burmese: ဦးဓမ္မလောက; c. 1856 – c. 1914) was an Irish-born migrant worker turned Buddhist monk, atheist critic of Christian missionaries, and temperance campaigner who took an active role in the Asian Buddhist revival around the turn of the twentieth century.

Dzogchen Ranyak Patrul Rinpoche (Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་ར་ཉག་དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Wylie: rdzogs chen ra nyag dpal sprul rin po che) (born 1963) is a Tibetan lama, teacher and author in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Count Ōtani Kōzui (大谷 光瑞, Buddhist name: 鏡如 Kyōnyo) (27 December 1876 - 5 October 1948) was the 22nd Abbot of the Nishi Honganji sub-sect of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism in Kyoto, Japan.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan: དིལ་མགོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་, Wylie: dil mgo mkhyen brtse) (c. 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a Vajrayana master, scholar, poet, teacher, and head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism from 1987 to 1991.

Kim Si-seup (1435–1493) was a Korean scholar and author.

Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (c. 1893 – 1959) was a Tibetan lama, a master of many lineages, and a teacher of many of the major figures in 20th-century Tibetan Buddhism.

Sosei (Japanese: 素性 or 素性法師, c. 844 – 910) was a Japanese waka poet and Buddhist priest.

Kātyāyana was a disciple of Gautama Buddha.

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་དབང་པོ, 1820–1892), also known by his tertön title, Pema Ösel Dongak Lingpa, was a renowned teacher, scholar and tertön of 19th century Tibet.

Hon'inbō Sansa (本因坊算砂, 1559 – June 13, 1623) was the assumed name of Kanō Yosaburō (加納 與三郎), one of the strongest Japanese Go players of the Edo period (1603–1867), and founder of the house of Hon'inbō, first among the four great schools of Go in Japan.

Ñāṇavīra Thera (born Harold Edward Musson; 5 January 1920 – 5 July 1965) was an English Theravāda Buddhist monk, ordained in 1950 in Sri Lanka.

Chishō Takaoka (高岡 智照 April 22, 1896 – October 22, 1994) was a geisha in Shinbashi who became a Buddhist nun later in life.

Junsei Terasawa (Japanese: 寺沢潤世, Russian: Дзюнсэй Тэрасава, Ukrainian: Дзюнсей Терасава; September 15, 1950) — Japanese Buddhist monk and Teacher of Monk Order Nipponzan Myōhōji in Eurasia.

Bada Shanren (born Zhu Da ca. 1626—1705) was a Han Chinese painter of ink wash painting and a calligrapher.

Chökyi Nyima (Nepali: छोकी निमा रिम्पोचे) (b. 1951) is a Nepalese Tibetan Buddhist lama and tulku.

Phra Sunthorn Vohara, known as Sunthorn Phu (26 June 1786 – 1855), is Thailand's best-known royal poet.

Nichidatsu Fujii (藤井 日達 Fujii Nichidatsu, August 6, 1885 – January 9, 1985) was a Japanese Buddhist monk, and founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji order of Buddhism.

The Bogd Khan (Mongolian: Богд Живзундамба Агваанлувсанчойжинямданзанванчүг, Bogd Jivzundamba Agvaanluvsanchoijinyamdanzanvanchüg; 1869–1924) was enthroned as Khagan of Mongolia (Bogd Khaganate) on 29 December 1911, when Outer Mongolia declared independence from the Qing dynasty after the Xinhai Revolution.

Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche (1918, Bhutan - June 10, 2003) was a great master of Tibetan Buddhism, widely regarded in the Himalayas, with many students in both the East and the West.

Mangong (만공, 1871–1946) or Song Mangong was a Korean Buddhist monk, independence activist, scholar, poet, writer and philosopher, in the period of the Japanese Occupation of Korea.

Ninshō (忍性, August 19, 1217 – August 25, 1303 (Kengen July 16 – Kempo July 12)) was a Japanese Shingon Risshu priest during the Kamakura period.

Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot from China to India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts.

Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln (Hungarian: Trebitsch-Lincoln Ignác, German: Ignaz Thimoteus Trebitzsch; 4 April 1879 – 6 October 1943) was a Hungarian adventurer and convicted con artist.

Kumārajīva (simplified Chinese: 鸠摩罗什; traditional Chinese: 鳩摩羅什; pinyin: Jiūmóluóshí; Wade–Giles: Chiu1 mo2 lo2 shih2, 344–413 CE) was a Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator from the Kingdom of Kucha.

Mahākāśyapa (Sanskrit; Pali: महाकस्सप Mahākassapa; Sinhala: මහා කාශ්‍යප මහ රහතන් වහන්සේ; Japanese: 摩訶迦葉 Maha Kasho or Makakashō; Chinese: 摩訶迦葉 móhējiāyè) or Kāśyapa was one of the principal disciples of Gautama Buddha and convened and directed the First Buddhist council.

Buddhaghoṣa (Thai: พระพุทธโฆษาจารย์, Chinese: 覺音/佛音) was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator and scholar.

Patrul Rinpoche (Wylie: dpal sprul rin po che) (1808–1887) was a prominent teacher and author of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Khantipalo, or Phra Khantipalo, is a Western Buddhist teacher and former Theravada monk.

Lobsang Gyatso (1928–1997) was a Tibetan monk who founded the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in India.

Kim Il-yeop or Kim Iryŏp, (hanja: 金一葉 ; 28 April 1896 - 28 May 1971) was a Korean writer, journalist, feminist activist, and Buddhist nun.

Ajahn Sucitto (Bhikkhu Sucitto, born 4 November 1949) is a British-born Theravada Buddhist monk ("ajahn" is the Thai rendition of ācariya [Pali] "teacher").

Ryōgen (良源, 912 – January 31, 985 AD) was a chief abbot of Enryaku-Temple (Enryaku-ji) in the 10th century.

Most Ven. Kadawedduwe Sri Jinavamsa Maha Thera (Pali: Siri Jinavaṃsa, sometimes spelled Jinawansa, Sinhala: අති පූජ්‍ය කඩවැද්දූවේ ශ්‍රී ජිනවංශ මහා ථේර) was a Sri Lankan Bhikkhu (Buddhist monk).

Most Ven. Katukurunde Nyanananda Maha Thera (spelled Ñāṇananda in Pali, sometimes called Gnanananda in Sinhala, Sinhala: අති පූජ්‍ය කටුකුරුන්දේ ඤාණානන්ද මහා ථේර) is a Sri Lankan Bhikkhu (Buddhist Monk) and a Buddhist scholar.

Liangqing (良卿法师) was a Chinese Buddhist Monk and Abbot of Famen Temple (Chinese: 法门寺; pinyin: Fǎmén Sì).

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Alak Jigme Thinley Lhundup or Alak Jigme Lhundup Rinpoche (1938 – 26 July 2012) was a Tibetan Tulku, as well as the former speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile and former Minister with the exile Tibet administration.

Akashi Kakuichi (明石覚一, 1299 – 10 August 1371) also known as Akashi Kengyō (明石検校) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Muromachi period of Japanese history, noted as the blind itinerant lute player (biwa hōshi) who gave the epic Heike Monogatari its present form.

Chunseong (Hangul: 춘성; hanja: 春城), born Lee Changnim (이창림, 李昌林; March 30, 1891 – August 22, 1977), was a Korean Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, writer, and philosopher.

Most Ven. Matara Sri Nanarama Maha Thera (spelled Ñāṇārāma in Pali, sometimes called Gnanarama in Sinhala, Sinhala: අති පූජ්‍ය මාතර ශ්‍රී ඤාණාරාම මහා ථේර) was an influential Sri Lankan meditation master, scholar and forest monk of the 20th century.

Most Ven. Nauyane Ariyadhamma Maha Thera‍ (Sinhalese: අතිපූජ්‍යය නා උයනේ අරියධම්ම මහා ථේර, 24 April 1939 – 6 September 2016) was a Sri Lankan bhikkhu (Buddhist monk) and a senior meditation teacher.

Ven. Thich Nhat Tu or Thích Nhật Từ in Vietnamese (Saigon, 1969) is a Vietnamese Buddhist reformer, an author, a poet, a psychological consultant, and an active social activist in Vietnam.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (/ˈjɒŋɡeɪ/; born 1975) is a Nepalese teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

Ryūmyō Tsunawaki (綱脇龍妙 Tsunawaki Ryūmyō) (January 24, 1876 – December 5, 1970 was a Buddhist priest who established a leprosy hospital Minobu Jinkyo-en, in Minobu-cho, Yamanashi-ken, Japan in 1906.

Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche (Tibetan: འཇིགས་བྲལ་བདག་ཆེན་ས་སྐྱ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།, ZYPY: Jigchä Dagqên Sa'gya Rinboqê; alt. Jigchai Dagqên Sa'gya Rinboqê; born November 2, 1929, died April 29, 2016) was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher educated in the Sakya sect.

Sāmanera Bodhesako (born Robert Smith, 1939-1988; known also as Ven. Vinayadhara and Ven. Ñāṇasuci in his early monastic life) was an American Buddhist monk.