Indian Philosophy
The catalogue includes 8 thinkers in Indian Philosophy.
How these pages are made
Each school page lists the thinkers in our catalogue who belong to this tradition (primary school or recorded affiliation). Dates, works and bios come from the same catalogue as the app. We do not write original essays about the school.
Thinkers in this tradition
- Sadhgurub. 1957
Sadhguru (born 1957) is an Indian yogi, mystic, and author whose teachings blend ancient yogic science with contemporary insight. Founder of the Isha Foundation and creator of Inner Engineering — a comprehensive system…
- Rabindranath Tagore1861 – 1941
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali polymath — poet, philosopher, musician, and painter — who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection 'Gitanjali'. A…
- Adi Shankara788 – 820
Adi Shankara (788–820 CE) consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta — the non-dual identity of the individual self (atman) and ultimate reality (brahman). In a life of barely thirty-two years he travelled the Indian…
- Patanjali200 BC – 150 BC
Patanjali (c. 2nd century BCE) compiled the Yoga Sutras, 196 terse aphorisms that systematised the practice of yoga as an eight-limbed path to liberation (ashtanga). He defined yoga in the second sutra as the stilling…
- Ramana Maharshi1879 – 1950
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) made the non-dual realisation of Advaita Vedanta accessible to a global audience in the twentieth century through his teaching of self-enquiry (atma vichara). At sixteen, after a sudden…
- Helena Blavatsky1831 – 1891
Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) was a Russian-born occultist and writer who co-founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875. Her major works, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine, wove Hindu and Buddhist ideas…
- Jiddu Krishnamurti1895 – 1986
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was an Indian-born teacher groomed by the Theosophical Society as the coming 'World Teacher' — a destiny he renounced in 1929, dissolving the order built around him and declaring that…
- Swami Vivekananda1863 – 1902
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) was an Indian Hindu monk and the foremost disciple of the mystic Ramakrishna. His address to the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893 introduced Vedanta and yoga to a wide…