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Influences

The tree of influences

Who learned from whom, who read whom and who thought alike without ever meeting. Each arc joins two teachers of the library; solid gold is a documented relationship.

110 teachers · 582 links

Greece and RomeChinaIndiaBuddhismJudaismChristianityIslam and SufismModern esotericismContemporary spirituality600 BCE300 BCE050010001300150017001800190019502000MahāvīraLaoziPythagorasConfuciusHeraclitusParmenidesEmpedoclesSiddhartha Gautama, the BuddhaSocratesPlatoDiogenes of SinopeAristotleEpicurusZeno of CitiumJesus of NazarethEpictetusMarcus AureliusNāgārjunaPlotinusAugustine of HippoZhuangziHuinengŚāntidevaPadmasambhavaRabia al-AdawiyyaAdi ShankaraAl-HallajMilarepaAl-GhazaliHildegard of BingenMaimonidesAttarIbn ArabiShinranFrancis of AssisiDōgenRumiMeister EckhartHafezJulian of NorwichCatherine of SienaTsongkhapaThomas à KempisKabirGuru NanakChaitanya MahaprabhuIgnatius of LoyolaMirabaiTeresa of ÁvilaJohn of the CrossJakob BöhmeBaruch SpinozaHakuin EkakuEmanuel SwedenborgBaal Shem TovSeraphim of SarovIgnatius BrianchaninovTheophan the RecluseFyodor DostoevskyLeo TolstoyHelena BlavatskyRamakrishnaAnnie BesantVladimir SolovyovSri YukteswarRudolf SteinerSwami VivekanandaG. I. GurdjieffSri AurobindoNicholas RoerichNikolai BerdyaevCarl Gustav JungMartin BuberP. D. OuspenskyHelena RoerichRamana MaharshiAlice A. BaileyPierre Teilhard de ChardinPavel FlorenskyKahlil GibranParamahansa YoganandaMeher BabaJiddu KrishnamurtiAnandamayi MaNisargadatta MaharajShunryu SuzukiSimone WeilAlan WattsThomas MertonAjahn ChahThich Nhat HanhDavid R. HawkinsOshoThe 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)Pema ChödrönByron KatieEckhart TolleSadhguruAshtavakraBodhidharmaDattatreyaGaudapadaKapilaNaradaPatañjaliUddalaka AruniValmikiVasishthaVyasaYajnavalkya
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