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:
“Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh,
As Eastern Summers are,
Must now, forsaking Time and Flesh,
Add light to some small Star.”
—Sir William Davenant (16061668)
“Now Morn her rosy steps in th eastern clime
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)