Buddhist teachers

Maitreya-nātha (ca. 270-350 CE) is a name whose use was pioneered by Buddhist scholars Erich Frauwallner, Giuseppe Tucci, and Hakuju Ui to distinguish one of the three founders of the Yogacara school of Buddhist philosophy, along with Asanga and Vasubandhu.

Wonhyo (617–686 CE) was one of the leading thinkers, writers and commentators of the Korean Buddhist tradition.

Ennin (圓仁 or 円仁, AD 793 or 794 – 864), who is better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師), was a priest of the Tendai school.

Asaṅga (Tibetan: ཐོགས་མེད།, Wylie: thogs med, traditional Chinese: 無著; ; pinyin: Wúzhuó; Romaji: Mujaku) was a major exponent of the Yogacara tradition in India, also called Vijñānavāda.

Vasubandhu (Sanskrit; traditional Chinese: 世親; ; pinyin: Shìqīn; Wylie: dbyig gnyen) (fl. 4th to 5th century C.E.) was a very influential Buddhist monk and scholar from Gandhara.

Jianzhen (or Ganjin) (鑒真, Chinese: Chien-chen; 688–763) was a Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan.

Bhāviveka, also called Bhavya or Bhāvaviveka (traditional Chinese: 清辯; ; pinyin: Qīngbiàn; Wylie: slob dpon bha bya, skal ldan, legs ldan, c. 500 – c. 578) was the founder of the Svātantrika tradition of the Mādhyamaka school of Buddhism.

Kātyāyana was a disciple of Gautama Buddha.

Saichō (最澄, September 15, 767 – June 26, 822) was a Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Tendai school of Buddhism based on the Chinese Tiantai school he was exposed to during his trip to Tang China beginning in 804.

Nyanaponika Thera or Nyanaponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901 – 19 October 1994) was a German-born Sri-Lanka-ordained Theravada monk, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, contemporary author of numerous seminal Theravada books, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi.

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

Chandrakirti (IAST: Candrakīrti; traditional Chinese: 月称; pinyin: Yuèchēng; Japanese: Gesshō; Tibetan: ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་, Wylie: zla ba grags pa, Lhasa dialect IPA: [tàwa ʈʰàʔpa]; c. 600 – c. 650) was a Buddhist scholar at Nalanda Mahavihara in Northern India.

Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 6th or 7th century) was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā.

Enchin (円珍) (814–891) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who founded of the Jimon School of Tendai Buddhism, and Chief Abbot of Miidera at the foot of Mount Hiei.

Śāntarakṣita (Sanskrit; Wylie: zhi ba tsho, 725–788) was a renowned 8th century Indian Buddhist Brahmin and abbot of Nalanda.

Buddhapālita (470–550) was a commentator on the works of Nagarjuna and Aryadeva.

Garab Dorje (Fl. 55 CE) (Tibetan: དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie: dga’ rab rdo rje) was the semi-historical first human teacher of the Ati Yoga (Tib. Dzogchen) or Great Perfection teachings according to Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

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.

In Buddhist tradition, Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī (Pali; Sanskrit Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī) was the first woman to request the Ordination of women in Buddhism, which she did from Gautama Buddha directly, and the first bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun).

Lance Selwyn Cousins (7 April 1942 – 14 March 2015), was a leading scholar in the field of Buddhist Studies.

Barry Michael Kerzin, M.

angel Kyodo Williams (born December 2, 1969) is an American writer, ordained Zen priest and the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, published by Viking Press in 2000.

Ramsay G. de S. Wettimuny (January 26, 1925 — July 13, 1974) was a Buddhist writer.

Gomchen Pema Chewang Tamang (1918–1966) was a Tibetan buddhist scholar, teacher and a renounced practitioner.

André Bareau (December 31, 1921- March 2, 1993) was a prominent French Buddhologist and a leader in the establishment of the field of Buddhist Studies in the 20th century.

Nisthananda Bajracharya (Devanagari: निष्ठानन्द बज्राचार्य) (9 December 1858 – 29 November 1935) was a Nepalese author who marked a turning point in Nepal Bhasa literature by breaking away from the classical style and writing prose in colloquial language.