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Dhammaloka (Carroll, Laurence) (fl.1900–11), Buddhist monk in Burma (Myanmar), was probably born in the early to mid 1850s in south Co. Dublin, son of a grocer in Booterstown. All that is known of his life prior to his emergence as a public figure in colonial Burma in 1900…...

Dillon, Michael (1915–62), medical doctor, writer, Buddhist monk, and the world's first surgically and hormonally reassigned transgender man, was born Laura Maud Dillon on 1 May 1915 in Ladbroke Grove, London, England, second child of Robert Arthur Dillon (1865–1925), former…...

Moriarty, John Stephen (1938–2007), philosopher and shaman, was born 2 February 1938 at Moyvane, near Listowel, Co. Kerry, fourth of six children (two sons and four daughters) of James Moriarty, smallholder and native speaker of Irish (with eleven cows and 'thirty-two acres of bad,…...

O'Halloran, Maura Eileen (1955–82), Zen master, was born 24 May 1955 in Boston, Mass., USA, eldest among one son and five daughters of Fionan Finbarr O'Halloran, civil engineer from Tralee, Co. Kerry, and Ruth O'Halloran (née Libbey), teacher, from Maine, USA. She was educated…...

Toland, John (1670–1722), freethinker and polemical writer, was probably born in Inishowen, Co. Donegal, on 30 November 1670. Reputed to be the illegitimate son of a catholic priest, Toland may have been baptised ‘Joannes Eugenius’, which he later altered to a pen name, ‘Janus…...