PHILOSOPHER

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1895 - 1986

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Jiddu Krishnamurti ( JID-oo KRISH-nə-MOOR-tee; 12 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was an Indian philosopher, speaker, writer, and spiritual figure. Adopted by members of the Theosophical tradition as a child, he was raised to fill the advanced role of World Teacher, but in adulthood he rejected this mantle and distanced himself from the related religious movement. He spent the rest of his life speaking to groups and individuals around the world; many of these talks have been published. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jiddu Krishnamurti has received more than 5,844,039 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Jiddu Krishnamurti is the 167th most popular philosopher (down from 140th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from India (down from 25th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Philosopher.

Jiddu Krishnamurti is most famous for his talks and writings on the subjects of psychology, spirituality, and the nature of human beings.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 167 out of 1,267. Before him are Chrysippus, Sextus Empiricus, Kabir, Han Fei, Jean Buridan, and Jean Baudrillard. After him are Max Horkheimer, Cesare Beccaria, Athanasius Kircher, Al-Ash'ari, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Claude Adrien Helvétius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 11. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Amin al-Husseini, Buster Keaton, Richard Sorge, Ernst Jünger, and Wilm Hosenfeld. After him are Max Horkheimer, Anna Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Éluard, J. Edgar Hoover, and Levi Eshkol. Among people deceased in 1986, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 9. Before him are Jorge Luis Borges, Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Olof Palme, Mircea Eliade, and Tenzing Norgay. After him are Joseph Beuys, Cliff Burton, Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, Frank Herbert, and Urho Kekkonen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 38 out of 1,861. Before him are Aurangzeb (1618), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Salman Khan (1965), Brahmagupta (598), Kabir (1440), and Sathya Sai Baba (1926). After him are Rani of Jhansi (1828), Amir Khusrow (1253), Sita (null), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Bhāskara II (1114), and Tulsidas (1532).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 7. Before him are Rajneesh (1931), Ramakrishna (1836), Nagarjuna (150), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Adi Shankara (788), and Kabir (1440). After him are Vyasa (-390), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Padmasambhava (717), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), and Ramana Maharshi (1879).

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