Asian Philosophies

Siddhartha Gautama born

563 BCE

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'),was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buddha

Nagarjuna born

150 BCE

Nagarjuna is the most famous thinker in the history of Buddhism after the Buddha himself. This fame was certainly present in the Buddhist cultures of Asia but was enhanced in the West by the preservation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika in Sanskrit and its early study by Orientalists https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nagarjuna#:~:text=Nagarjuna%20is%20the%20most%20famous,its%20early%20study%20by%20Orientalists.

Bohidharma born

440

Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century CE. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and is regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma

Dogen born

1200

Dōgen Zenji, also known as Dōgen Kigen, Eihei Dōgen, Kōso Jōyō Daishi, or Busshō Dentō Kokushi, was a Japanese Buddhist priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan