Religious thinkers of India

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India has been home to a large number of religious thinkers and spiritualists. The most impactful of such religious thinkers include Buddha, Guru Nanak, and Mahavira. Buddha and Guru Nanak were the founders of the Buddhist and Sikh religions respectively. Mahavira was the last Jain Tirthankara.

Buddhism

Hinduism

Other important figures include Basava, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and others

Islam

Other important figures include Kabir, Ali Hujwiri and Akbar.

Zoroastrianism

  • Dadabhai Naoroji - Also regarded as one of the most important freedom fighter of the country.

Other important thinkers

The Sikh Gurus undoubtedly were very important in propounding the tenets of Sikhism. Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, is believed to have preached and finally died in India. Saint Francis Xavier also developed a Jesuit missionary method that left a significant impression upon the missionary history of India.

Jesus of Nazareth may have had spiritual training or influences from South Asian spiritual thought. A school of thought believes Jesus escaped the Roman empire to Kashmir.[1][2]

See also

Notes

  1. Jesus in India (book)
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