Religious thinkers of India

India has been home to a large number of religious thinkers and spiritualists. The most important 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.

Hinduisum social reformers

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

Islam

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Other important figures include Ali Hujwiri, the five founders of the Deobandi movement, and Akbar. Additionally, the Imamate of the Nizari Ismaili community is based in Gujarat (although the current Agha Khan lives in Britain).

Zoroastrianism

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

Other important thinkers

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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

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Notes

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  1. ^ Jesus in India (book)
  2. ^ "Jesus in Kashmir, India (BBC Documentary)-1". YouTube. 2006-12-16. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2012-02-14.