PHILOSOPHER

Ramakrishna

1836 - 1886

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Ramakrishna (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), also called Ramakrishna Paramahansa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, romanized: Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; pronounced [ramɔkriʂno pɔromoɦɔŋʃo] ; IAST: Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa), born Ramakrishna Chattopadhay, was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali, but adhered to various religious practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as Christianity and Islam. He advocated the essential unity of religions and proclaimed that world religions are "so many paths to reach one and the same goal". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramakrishna has received more than 4,770,902 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia. Ramakrishna is the 75th most popular philosopher (down from 71st in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from India (down from 11th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Philosopher.

Ramakrishna is most famous for his teachings about the unity of all religions. He believed that all religions have the same goal, which is to help people find the truth.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ramakrishna ranks 75 out of 1,267. Before him are Ludwig Feuerbach, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Zeno of Citium, Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Steiner, and George Berkeley. After him are Jürgen Habermas, Xenophanes, Nagarjuna, Carl von Clausewitz, Nicholas of Cusa, and Gregory of Nazianzus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Ramakrishna ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm Steinitz, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Léo Delibes, Sophia of Nassau, Ferdinand Cheval, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sakamoto Ryōma, Marie Henriette of Austria, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Among people deceased in 1886, Ramakrishna ranks 2. Before him is Franz Liszt. After him are Ludwig II of Bavaria, Leopold von Ranke, Emily Dickinson, Chester A. Arthur, John Deere, Amilcare Ponchielli, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Alexander Ostrovsky, Ilya Ulyanov, and Pierre-Jules Hetzel.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ramakrishna ranks 12 out of 1,861. Before him are Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), and Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887). After him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Nagarjuna (150), Shivaji (1627), Mahavira (-599), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), and Indira Gandhi (1917).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Ramakrishna ranks 2. Before him are Rajneesh (1931). After him are Nagarjuna (150), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Adi Shankara (788), Kabir (1440), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), Vyasa (-390), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Padmasambhava (717), Sri Aurobindo (1872), and Paramahansa Yogananda (1893).

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