Atlas
The atlas of wisdom
Where each teacher was born. Move the timeline and you will see who was alive in each age: who could have crossed paths, which regions lit up and when.
All ages
599 BCE28 BCE2026
97 teachers on the map
- Mahāvīra
- Laozi
- Pythagoras
- Confucius
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- Empedocles
- Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
- Socrates
- Plato
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Aristotle
- Epicurus
- Zeno of Citium
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Epictetus
- Marcus Aurelius
- Plotinus
- Augustine of Hippo
- Zhuangzi
- Huineng
- Śāntideva
- Padmasambhava
- Rabia al-Adawiyya
- Adi Shankara
- Al-Hallaj
- Milarepa
- Al-Ghazali
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Maimonides
- Attar
- Ibn Arabi
- Shinran
- Francis of Assisi
- Dōgen
- Rumi
- Meister Eckhart
- Hafez
- Julian of Norwich
- Catherine of Siena
- Tsongkhapa
- Thomas à Kempis
- Kabir
- Guru Nanak
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Mirabai
- Teresa of Ávila
- John of the Cross
- Jakob Böhme
- Baruch Spinoza
- Hakuin Ekaku
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Baal Shem Tov
- Seraphim of Sarov
- Ignatius Brianchaninov
- Theophan the Recluse
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Leo Tolstoy
- Helena Blavatsky
- Ramakrishna
- Annie Besant
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Sri Yukteswar
- Rudolf Steiner
- Swami Vivekananda
- G. I. Gurdjieff
- Sri Aurobindo
- Nicholas Roerich
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Martin Buber
- P. D. Ouspensky
- Helena Roerich
- Ramana Maharshi
- Alice A. Bailey
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pavel Florensky
- Kahlil Gibran
- Paramahansa Yogananda
- Meher Baba
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Anandamayi Ma
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Shunryu Suzuki
- Simone Weil
- Alan Watts
- Thomas Merton
- Ajahn Chah
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- David R. Hawkins
- Osho
- The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
- Pema Chödrön
- Byron Katie
- Eckhart Tolle
- Sadhguru
Birthplace as recorded in each teacher's profile; for legendary figures or disputed dates, the one given by tradition. Equal Earth projection.