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:
“All the morning we had heard the sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by, filling the whole air, that of the sea dashing against the land, heard several miles inland. Instead of having a dog to growl before your door, to have an Atlantic Ocean to growl for a whole Cape!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)