No, I did know of him. I taught yoga (at the college level) for 27 years and learned about all those MOST interesting eastern philosophers. There are some 330 million "faces" of "God" in Hinduism. Gads.
My husband thought that SOMEWHERE in India some cult was worshiping a '65 Chevy. My husband had one. Boy could it FLY.
Mind you, I didn't delve much into their philosophy since it wasn't a philosophy class but I taught it as part of the general cultural aspect of yoga, an Asian practice.
Zoroastrians, Sidhartha Gautama (Buddha) and the Japanese hero worship. The Chinese were RIGHT up there with their gods--kitchen god, garden god, you name it, they had it.
All very interesting.
ALMOST forgot one of the biggies: Kung fu-tzu or Confucius.