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Padmasambhava

717 - 762

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Padmasambhava ('Born from a Lotus'), also known as Guru Rinpoche ('Precious Guru'), was a semi-legendary tantric Buddhist Vajra master from medieval India. who fully revealed the Vajrayana in Tibet, circa 8th – 9th centuries. He is considered an emanation or Nirmāṇakāya of Shakyamuni Buddha as foretold by the Buddha himself. According to early Tibetan sources including the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century and designed Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet during the reign of King Trisong Detsen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Padmasambhava is the 116th most popular philosopher (up from 252nd in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from India (up from 66th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Philosopher.

Padmasambhava is most famous for the creation of the Tibetan alphabet and the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Padmasambhava ranks 116 out of 1,267. Before him are Wilhelm von Humboldt, Emil Cioran, Bodhidharma, John Scotus Eriugena, Gilles Deleuze, and Meister Eckhart. After him are Tertullian, William of Ockham, Ibn Taymiyyah, Bonaventure, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Emmanuel Levinas.

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Among people born in 717, Padmasambhava ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 762, Padmasambhava ranks 2. Before him is Li Bai. After him are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Emperor Suzong of Tang, Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, and Vineh of Bulgaria.

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In India

Among people born in India, Padmasambhava ranks 34 out of 1,861. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), Jamsetji Tata (1839), Vivien Leigh (1913), Ānanda (-600), Brahmagupta (598), and Rani of Jhansi (1828). After him are A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Zakir Husain (1897), Amir Khusrow (1253), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), and Chandragupta Maurya (-340).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Padmasambhava ranks 5. Before him are Rajneesh (1931), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Ramakrishna (1836), and Nagarjuna (150). After him are Buddhaghosa (401), Adi Shankara (788), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Kabir (1440), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), and Aśvaghoṣa (80).

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