100 living teachers

Here’s a broad, inter-tradition snapshot of 100 living teachers whom sizable communities regard as highly realized / awakened / enlightened (or close). I’m not certifying anyone’s enlightenment—the “/10” is a light, community-recognition & visibility gauge (how strongly and widely their followers regard them as awakened today). It’s inevitably subjective, but useful as a quick map.
Tradition = primary stream they’re associated with (many are syncretic).
Score (/10) = community recognition & visibility, not a “truth meter.”

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Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama) — Tibetan Buddhism — 10/10
Mingyur Rinpoche (Yongey) — Tibetan Buddhism — 9/10
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche — Tibetan Buddhism — 8/10
Garchen Rinpoche — Tibetan Buddhism — 8/10
Tsoknyi Rinpoche — Tibetan Buddhism — 8/10
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche — Tibetan Buddhism — 8/10
Ogyen Trinley Dorje (17th Karmapa) — Tibetan Buddhism — 9/10
Thaye Dorje (17th Karmapa) — Tibetan Buddhism — 8/10
Pema Chödrön — Tibetan Buddhism — 8/10
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo — Tibetan Buddhism — 8/10
Ajahn Brahm — Theravada (Forest) — 8/10
Bhante Gunaratana — Theravada — 7/10
Thanissaro Bhikkhu — Theravada — 7/10
Bhikkhu Analayo — Theravada — 7/10
Jack Kornfield — Insight/Vipassana — 8/10
Joseph Goldstein — Insight/Vipassana — 8/10
Sharon Salzberg — Insight/Loving-kindness — 8/10
Tara Brach — Insight/Compassion — 8/10
Shinzen Young — Pragmatic Dharma — 8/10
Gil Fronsdal — Insight/Vipassana — 7/10
Eckhart Tolle — Nondual/Contemplative — 10/10
Mooji — Advaita/Nondual — 9/10
Rupert Spira — Advaita — 9/10
Francis Lucille — Advaita — 8/10
Adyashanti — Nondual — 8/10
Gangaji — Advaita — 8/10
Loch Kelly — Nondual mindfulness — 7/10
Sailor Bob Adamson — Advaita — 7/10
A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali) — Diamond Approach — 8/10
Byron Katie — Inquiry/Nondual flavor — 8/10
Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev) — Yogic/Mystic — 10/10
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar — Bhakti/Yoga (Art of Living) — 9/10
Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma) — Bhakti — 10/10
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda — Siddha Yoga — 8/10
Sri M — Kriya/Bhakti — 8/10
Om Swami — Himalayan monastic — 8/10
Swami Mukundananda — Bhakti (JKYog) — 8/10
Daaji (Kamlesh Patel) — Heartfulness/Sahaj Marg — 9/10
Anandmurti Gurumaa — Vedanta/Bhakti — 8/10
Amma Sri Karunamayi — Shakta/Bhakti — 8/10
Radhanath Swami — Gaudiya Vaishnava (ISKCON) — 9/10
Jayapataka Swami — Gaudiya Vaishnava — 8/10
Indradyumna Swami — Gaudiya Vaishnava — 8/10
Sacinandana Swami — Gaudiya Vaishnava — 8/10
Gaur Gopal Das — Gaudiya Vaishnava (teacher/monk) — 8/10
Chinna Jeeyar Swami — Sri Vaishnava — 8/10
Tridandi Chinna Srimannarayana Ramanuja Jeeyar — Sri Vaishnava — 7/10
Paramahamsa Prajnanananda — Kriya Yoga (Prajna Mission) — 8/10
Shibendu Lahiri — Kriya Yoga (Lahiri family) — 7/10
Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath — Kriya/Himalayan — 8/10
Swami Sarvapriyananda — Advaita (Ramakrishna Mission) — 8/10
Swami Tathagatananda’s successors (Vedanta Soc.) — Advaita — 7/10
Dayananda Ashram lineage (Pujya Swami Dayananda’s students) — Advaita — 7/10
Nithin Sridhar (teacher/author) — Advaita/Tantra explainer — 6/10
Rajiv Malhotra (thinker) — Civilizational dharma advocate — 6/10
Sadhu Vaswani Mission leadership — Bhakti/Seva — 7/10
Brahma Kumaris (Sister Jayanti & senior sisters) — Raja Yoga — 8/10
Isha Hatha Yoga senior acharyas — Yoga — 7/10
Art of Living senior faculty (e.g., Nityapragya) — Bhakti/Pranayama — 7/10
Paramahamsa Vishwananda — Bhakti Marga — 7/10
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan — Sufism (Inayatiyya) — 8/10
Kabir Helminski — Sufism (Mevlevi) — 8/10
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee — Sufi/Mystic — 8/10
Sheikha Fariha al-Jerrahi — Sufi (Jerrahi) — 7/10
Shaykh Hamdi Ben Aissa — Sufi/Traditional — 7/10
Shaykh Nader Khan — Sufi poet/teacher — 7/10
Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi — Sufi/Scholar — 8/10
Shaykh Hisham Kabbani — Naqshbandi — 7/10
Shaykh Ninowy — Sufi/Scholar — 7/10
Idries Shah family legacy teachers — Sufi literature — 6/10
Richard Rohr — Christian Contemplative — 8/10
Cynthia Bourgeault — Christian Mysticism — 7/10
James Finley — Christian Contemplative — 7/10
Martin Laird — Christian Contemplative — 7/10
Fr. Thomas Keating’s successors (Contemplative Outreach) — Centering Prayer — 7/10
Ilia Delio — Christian Teilhardian mysticism — 6/10
Rami Shapiro — Jewish/Interspiritual — 7/10
Rabbi Rami Nachman line teachers (neo-Hasidic) — Jewish mysticism — 6/10
Rabbi Arthur Green — Neo-Hasidic contemplative — 7/10
Rabbi DovBer Pinson — Kabbalah/Hasidut — 7/10
Joan Halifax Roshi — Zen — 8/10
Norman Fischer Roshi — Zen — 7/10
Shohaku Okumura Roshi — Zen — 7/10
Henry Shukman — Zen/Nondual — 7/10
Roshi Enkyo O’Hara — Zen — 7/10
Bernie Glassman lineage successors — Zen/Engaged — 6/10
Shodo Harada Roshi — Rinzai Zen — 7/10
Guo Ru / Taiwanese Chan teachers — Chan — 6/10
Sheng Yen lineage successors (Dharma Drum) — Chan — 7/10
Shodo Spring (engaged Zen) — Zen — 6/10
Don Miguel Ruiz — Toltec wisdom — 8/10
Sergio Magaña (Ocelotomec) — Toltec/Mesoamerican — 6/10
Grandmother Flordemayo — Mayan/Curandera — 7/10
Alberto Villoldo — Andean shamanic — 6/10
Malik Sarostein (Amazonian facilitators network) — Plant medicine — 6/10
Sobonfu Somé legacy circle — African wisdom — 6/10
Malidoma Somé school successors — African shamanic — 6/10
Satish Kumar — Gandhian/eco-spiritual — 7/10
Brother David Steindl-Rast — Benedictine/Gratefulness — 8/10
Matthieu Ricard — Tibetan Buddhism/Contemplative science — 9/10
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