* Ramanuja || * Ta Hui || * Hakim Sani || * Giovanni de Bernadone || * Dogen
* Mevtana Jalaluddin Rumi || * Meister Eckehart || * Lalla Ishvari || * Ramananda
* Kabir || * Meera

Ramanauja
1017

Ramanuja was born in southern India. A philosopher and a mystic, he felt very strongly the injustice of keeping the divine truths from ordinary people. One day he ascended the tower in Kanjeeveram in Southern India and communicated to the people below belonging to all castes -the mystic revelation of the sacred vedas.

Ta Hui
1088

Ta Hui the great Zen master was born near the Yangtoe river in China. Leaving home at 16 he became a monk and for the next two years studied all the schools of Zen and then sought instruction from many Zen teachers and masters. He died in 1163 at the age of 73. When asked by his disciples to compose a verse before dying he writes -
* Birth is thus
* Death is thus
* Verse or no verse
* What is the fuss.

Hakim Sani
1130

Hakim Sani, on his travels with the sultan of Ghazni, hears a Sufi mystic declare that Hakim Sani is blind because he is unaware of the purpose for which he has been created.
The impact of these words caused Hakim Sani to totally transform his life and he became a seeker of truth and wrote his spiritual masterpiece "The Hadija"-The walled garden of Truth.

Giovanni de Bernadone (St Francis of Assisi)
1182

Giovanni de Bernadone of Assissi Italy was born in 1182. After some wild teenage years spent drinking and feasting he became an ascetic monk eventually gaining fame as St Francis of Assisi. He lived a life of severe self-denial and hardship but in his last days repented his asceticism saying it has offended his brother the body.

Dogen
1200

He was born in Dogen and became a famous Zen master. He was formally initiated into monkhood at age 13. He became enlightened with master Ju-ching and later founded the Sieto school of Zen. He taught Zazen - sitting meditation. He said-"To study the way is to study the self. To study the se is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things."