1200 - 1253
Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; 19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), or Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師), was a Japanese Buddhist priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. Originally ordained as a monk in the Tendai School in Kyoto, he was ultimately dissatisfied with its teaching and traveled to China to seek out what he believed to be a more authentic Buddhism. He remained there for five years, finally training under Tiantong Rujing, an eminent teacher of the Chinese Caodong lineage. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dōgen has received more than 344,380 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Dōgen is the 579th most popular religious figure (down from 529th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Japan (down from 71st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Dōgen ranks 579 out of 2,272. Before him are Pope Theodore I, Pope Leo VII, Norbert of Xanten, Pope Damasus II, Nichiren, and Epiphanius of Salamis. After him are Charles de Foucauld, Saint Menas, Peter Lombard, Zayd ibn Thabit, Angela Merici, and Kane Tanaka.
600 - 649
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 573
900 - 939
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 574
1080 - 1134
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 575
1000 - 1048
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 576
1222 - 1282
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 577
315 - 403
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 578
1200 - 1253
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 579
1858 - 1916
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 580
285 - 309
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 581
1096 - 1160
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 582
615 - 665
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 583
1474 - 1540
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 584
1903 - Present
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 585
Among people born in 1200, Dōgen ranks 4. Before him are Pope Urban III, Pope Alexander IV, and Pope Celestine IV. After him are Qutuz, Zhang Sanfeng, Villard de Honnecourt, Nicholas Kanabos, Muhammad al-Nasir, Doquz Khatun, Shiban, and Joan, Countess of Flanders. Among people deceased in 1253, Dōgen ranks 2. Before him is Clare of Assisi. After him are Theobald I of Navarre, Robert Grosseteste, Violant of Hungary, Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, Theodore Komnenos Doukas, Otto II, Duke of Bavaria, Henry I of Cyprus, Vykintas, and Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy.
1200 - 1187
HPI: 78.62
Rank: 1
1200 - 1261
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 2
1200 - 1241
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 3
1200 - 1253
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 4
1200 - 1260
HPI: 72.69
Rank: 5
1200 - 1301
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 6
1200 - 1250
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 7
1200 - 1204
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 8
1200 - 1213
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 9
1200 - 1265
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 10
1200 - 1266
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 11
1200 - 1244
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 12
1193 - 1253
HPI: 81.58
Rank: 1
1200 - 1253
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 2
1201 - 1253
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 3
1175 - 1253
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 4
1215 - 1253
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 5
1205 - 1253
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 6
1180 - 1253
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 7
1206 - 1253
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 8
1217 - 1253
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 9
1250 - 1253
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 10
1197 - 1253
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 11
Among people born in Japan, Dōgen ranks 76 out of 5,560. Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Kenzō Tange (1913), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), and Nichiren (1222). After him are Kane Tanaka (1903), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Akira Toriyama (1955), Paulo Miki (1564), Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), and Tomoe Gozen (1157).
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 70
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 71
1913 - 2005
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 72
1916 - 2010
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 73
1837 - 1913
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 74
1222 - 1282
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 75
1200 - 1253
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 76
1903 - Present
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 77
1898 - 1956
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 78
1955 - Present
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 79
1564 - 1597
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 80
1571 - 1622
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 81
1157 - 1247
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 82
Among religious figures born in Japan, Dōgen ranks 3. Before him are Benkei (1155) and Nichiren (1222). After him are Kane Tanaka (1903), Paulo Miki (1564), Mikao Usui (1865), Sen no Rikyū (1522), Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659), Ikkyū (1394), Eisai (1141), Dom Justo Takayama (1552), and Saichō (767).
1155 - 1189
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 1
1222 - 1282
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 2
1200 - 1253
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 3
1903 - Present
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 4
1564 - 1597
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 5
1865 - 1926
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 6
1522 - 1591
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 7
1659 - 1719
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 8
1394 - 1481
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 9
1141 - 1215
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 10
1552 - 1615
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 11
767 - 822
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 12