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Jiddu Krishnamurti

1895 - 1986

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Jiddu Krishnamurti ( JID-oo KRISH-nə-MOOR-tee; 11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was an Indian spiritual speaker and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical tradition as a child because of his aura as perceived by Theosophic leader Charles Leadbetter, "without a particle of selfishness in it," 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 nevertheless spent the rest of his life speaking to groups and individuals around the world to set mankind free, gaining a wider recognition in the 1950s, after Aldous Huxley had introduced him to his mainstream publisher and the publication of The First and Last Freedom (1954). Many of his talks have been published since, and he also wrote a few books himself, among them Commentaries on Living (1956–60) and Krishnamurti's Notebook (written 1961-62). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jiddu Krishnamurti is the 170th most popular philosopher (down from 167th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from India (down from 38th in 2019) and the 8th 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 170 out of 1,267. Before him are Herbert Marcuse, Athanasius Kircher, Melissus of Samos, Ferdinand Tönnies, Adi Shankara, and Ernst Cassirer. After him are Xun Kuang, Jakob Böhme, Thomas Reid, Mikhail Bakhtin, Posidonius, and Marquis de Condorcet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 13. Before him are Buckminster Fuller, Carl Orff, Buster Keaton, Anna Freud, Ernst Jünger, and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. After him are Nikolai Yezhov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Sorge, Wilm Hosenfeld, William Giauque, and Max Horkheimer. Among people deceased in 1986, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 10. Before him are Vyacheslav Molotov, Olof Palme, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Mircea Eliade, and Tenzing Norgay. After him are James Rainwater, Robert S. Mulliken, Jean Genet, Frank Herbert, Urho Kekkonen, and Edward Adelbert Doisy.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 45 out of 1,861. Before him are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Chandragupta Maurya (-340), Valmiki (-80), Buddhaghosa (401), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), and Adi Shankara (788). After him are Aryabhata (476), Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Raja Ravi Varma (1848), Aishwarya Rai (1973), and Hyder Ali (1720).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti ranks 8. Before him are Swami Vivekananda (1863), Ramakrishna (1836), Nagarjuna (150), Padmasambhava (717), Buddhaghosa (401), and Adi Shankara (788). After him are Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Kabir (1440), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Sri Aurobindo (1872), and Ramana Maharshi (1879).

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