Modern Buddhist writers 19th century to date
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Theravada / Vipassana movement |
B. R. Ambedkar • Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu • Ajahn Chah • Anagarika Dharmapala • Joseph Goldstein • Henepola Gunaratana • Noah Levine • Nyanaponika Thera
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Mahayana |
Daisaku Ikeda • Yin Shun • Alfred Bloom
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Vajrayana |
Pema Chödrön • Kelsang Gyatso • Tenzin Gyatso • Matthieu Ricard • Robert Thurman • Chögyam Trungpa
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Zen |
Taisen Deshimaru • Thích Nhất Hạnh • Philip Kapleau • D. T. Suzuki • Han Yong-un • Hsing Yun • Sheng Yen
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Other and Secular Buddhism |
Stephen Batchelor • Robert Wright
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Scholars |
Lokesh Chandra • Walter Evans-Wentz • Richard Gombrich • Thomas Rhys Davids
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Non-Buddhists influenced by Buddhism |
Edwin Arnold • Helena Blavatsky • Fritjof Capra • Leonard Cohen • Alexandra David-Néel • Hermann Hesse • Carl Jung • Jon Kabat-Zinn • Friedrich Nietzsche • Henry Steel Olcott • Rajneesh • Helena Roerich • J. D. Salinger • Arthur Schopenhauer • Gary Snyder • Alan Watts • Alfred North Whitehead
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