Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was a highly influential preacher of Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout India in the late 19th and early 20th Century. He was born as Bimala-prasad Dutta in the pilgrimage town of Jagannatha Puri, Orissa, India.
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Jiva Goswami was one of the most prolific and important writers from the Gaudiya Vaishnava school, producing a great number of philosophical works on the theology and practice of Bhakti yoga and associated disciplines.
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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Mayapur in the town of Nadia, just after sunset on the evening of the 23rd Falgun, 1407 Advent of Sakabda answering to the 18th Februrary, 1486 of the Christian era.
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Saint Anthony and Saint Paul the Hermit are seen as the founders of Christian monasticism. Athanasius says, "For monks, the life of Anthony is a sufficient example of ascetism."
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From his birth to his exile, the story of the Dalai Lama is one that the modern world will not soon forget. A spiritual inspiration to millions and a leader of a country in exile.
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Sri Jayatirtha (1365 –1388) is one of stalwarts of Tattvavada, and is a very senior scholar of the Madhva hierarchy, being next only to Srimad Ananda Tirtha, Sri Vadiraja Tirtha, and Sri Padmanabha Tirtha.
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Sri Vadiraja Tirtha (1480 - 1600) is the second highest saint in the Madhva hierarchy, being next only to Srimad Ananda Tirtha himself, in the taratamya.
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Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov was born in 1852 and began his religious education at the age of 16. He studied in Anninsky Datsan (a Buddhist university in Buryatia.
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Agvan Lobsan Dorzhiev, Agvan Dorjiev, Dorjieff, or Tsenyi Khempo (1854-1938), a Khory Buryat Mongolian, and a Russian subject, was born in the village of Khara-Shibir, not far from Ulan Ude, to the east of Lake Baikal.
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