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2. Ananda Metteyya/Allan Bennett (1872–1923)

   Allan Bennett was one of the first British people to be ordained as a Buddhist monk (bhikkhu) in Asia, taking the name Ananda Metteyya. He was a liminal figure who stretched across different nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts. He was well-educated but experienced poverty and chro...

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   Elizabeth Harris

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3. Dōgen (1200–1253)

   Dōgen can without any doubt be considered one of the most important Japanese thinkers of all times. An aristocrat by birth, he entered the head monastery of the Tendai school favoured by the nobility at an early age, left it when he did not find satisfactory answers to his questions, later st...

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   Rein Raud

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4. Kūkai (774–835)

   In addition to being the founder of the influential Shingon school of Japanese Buddhism, Kūkai (774–835) was one of Japan’s greatest calligraphers, a masterful scholar of pre-Tang dynasty classical Chinese literature, a ritual innovator, and an institutional builder who developed influential ...

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   David L. Gardiner

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5. Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933)

   Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933) was a Buddhist speaker, activist, missionary, and founder of the Maha Bodhi Society. A complex and influential figure in modern Buddhism, multiple characterizations of his life are certainly possible. He cleverly crafted different images of what he stood for...

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   Bhadrajee Hewage

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6. Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1875–1939)

   Beatrice Lane Suzuki was the American born wife of renowned Zen scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Until very recently, nothing beyond this had been written about her. She was, however, also a very significant figure in introducing Japanese Buddhism to the West, a partner in the mission to mak...

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   Judith Snodgrass

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7. Như Thanh (1911–1999)

   Bhikṣuṇī Như Thanh (1911–1999) was an ordained Vietnamese Buddhist nun, leader, and teacher who significantly influenced Vietnamese Buddhism and the development of the Southern Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns’ Sangha. Over nearly two millennia of Vietnamese Buddhist history, nuns have held a signi...

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   Ninh Thị Sinh

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   Buddhism

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