Buddhism

Ryōkan Taigu was an Edo-period Zen monk whose life of radical simplicity and chosen joy continues to illuminate what it means to be fully, deliberately alive.

Tibetan yogi Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol saw through the walls between sacred traditions two centuries before the world was ready to listen.

Bo Min Gaung, a Burmese weizza saint, inspired 4000 villages to build pagodas under colonial rule, showing how sacred community endures.

Kim Iryp was a voice everyone heard-poet, editor, provocateur. And then, one day, she walked away. Into the mountains.