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:
“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)
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)