Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages

From suffering to nirvana / Guatama, the Buddha (624-544 B.C.E., Nepal) -- From illiterate woodcutter to sixth Zen patriarch / Hui-Neng (638-713, China) -- Lady of the Lotus-Born / Yeshe Tsogyal (757-817, Tibet) -- Intoxicated with the Beloved / Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273, Afghanistan) -- Kabbalah: the secret names of God / a disciple of the Kabbalistic school of Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291, Spain) -- The bride of Christ / Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380, Italy) -- Beyond dogma to divinity / Kabir (circa 1440-1518, India) -- Poems of a mad Dalai Lama / Gendun Gyatso Palzangpo (1475-1541, Tibet) -- Transcending the dark night of the soul / Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591, Spain) -- Falling down laughing / Hakuin (1686-1769, Japan) -- The heavenly Hasid / the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760, Eastern Europe) -- In bondage, yet free / Bahaullah (1817-1892, Iran) -- The ecstatic lover of Mother Kali / Ramakrisha Paramahamsa (1836-1886, India) -- I am not the body, I am the self (Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950, India) -- There is only Ram (God) / Swami (Papa) Ramdas (1884-1963, India) and Mother Krishnabai (1903-1989, India) -- Bringing cosmic consciousness to the west / Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952, India) -- The universal love of an Avatar (Meher Baba (1989-1969, India) -- I am God intoxicated / Krishnamurti (1895-1986, India) -- Pathways through to space / Franklin Merrel-Wolff (1897-1985, United States) -- Walking for world peace / Peace Pilgrim (early 1900s-1981, United States) -- The awakening of the kundalini / Gopi Krishna (1908-1984, India) -- Releasing the ultimate freedom / Lester Levenson (1909-1994, United States) -- From individual to impersonal / Jean Klein (circa 1916-1998, Czechoslovakia) -- It had to happen / Ramesh Balsekar (1919-present, India) -- The silence of the heart / Robert Adams (1928-1997, United States) -- The journey to no-self / Bernadette Roberts (1931-present, United States) -- Becoming the cosmos without leaving home / Deepa Kodikal (1941-present, India) -- Who are you? you are THAT! / Gangaji (1942-present, United States) -- The power of now / Eckhart Tolle (1948-present, Germany) -- Finding essence through the diamond approach / A.H. Almaas (?-present, Kuwait) -- The cannery enlightenment / Shantimayi (1950-present, United States) -- Embraced by the Divine Mother / Mata Amritanandamayi (1953-present, India) -- Collision with the infinite / Suzanne Segal (1955-1997, United States)