Eastern
- Tibetan Buddhism – Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama (1935–present)
- Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia – Preah Maha Ghosananda (1988–present)
- Supreme Patriarch of Thailand- Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana (1989–present?)
- Sakya – Sakya Trizin, Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar Samphel Wanggi Gyalpo(born 1945)
- Nichiren Shoshu – High Priest Nikken Abe
- Konkokyo – Konko Heiki(spiritual leader since 1991)
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Famous quotes containing the word eastern:
“My second husband was an American. We traveled all over the world and everywhere we went he would say to people, “I am an American. I am an American.” They finally shot him in one of those Eastern countries.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“Now Morn her rosy steps in th’ eastern clime
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)